Surname
tôn
“lineage, ancestry, ancestor, clan”
tôn is a surname from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
tôn goes back to Chinese 宗// (-), meaning “lineage, ancestry, ancestor, clan.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Chinese 宗// (-, “lineage, ancestry, ancestor, clan”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
tôn’s family of names
In Vietnamese usage, tôn as a surname has a related form in tông.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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