van Tan Surname

4,034,050th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 24 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malaysia
Highest density in:
Malaysia

van Tan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Tan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malaysia121:2,457,85295,442
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Vietnam31:30,882,0184,101
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628

van Tan (33) may also be a first name.

van Tan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name van Tan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname van Tan is most common in Malaysia. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name van Tan? popularity and diffusion

The last name van Tan is the 4,034,050th most prevalent surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. The surname van Tan occurs predominantly in Asia, where 63 percent of van Tan are found; 63 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 50 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. van Tan is also the 1,807,719th most commonly used given name worldwide It is held by 33 people.

van Tan is most numerous in Malaysia, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 2,457,852. In Malaysia it is most numerous in: Johor, where 42 percent live, Kuala Lumpur, where 33 percent live and Selangor, where 25 percent live. Not including Malaysia it occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 21 percent live and Vietnam, where 13 percent live.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to van Tan
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