Given name & surname
Tin
“a great thinker”
Tin is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “a great thinker.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “a great thinker.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
How it developed
In Breton usage, Tin is a diminutive of KAOURANTIN. In Breton usage, Tin is a diminutive of Kaourintin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 436
- 436 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,377 as a first name in 2020; 1,457 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tin’s family of names
In Breton usage, Tin is a diminutive of KAOURANTIN. In Breton usage, Tin is a shortened form of KAOURANTIN. In Breton usage, Tin is a diminutive of Kaourintin.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tin
- Tin JedvajCroatian association football playerborn 1995
- Tin SrbićCroatian artistic gymnastborn 1996
- Tin Aung Myint OoGeneral and Vice President of Burmaborn 1950
- Tin TutBurmese politician (1895-1948)
- Tin TokićCroatian handball playerborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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