Given name & surname
Toan
“one who is safe”
Toan is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is safe.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is safe.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
How it developed
Toan is used as a form of An-toan.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Toan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 405
- 405 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 38 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 38 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,044 as a first name in 2020; 207 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.
Toan’s family of names
Toan is a form of An-toan. Toan has a related form in Toane. Toan has a related form in Toanne.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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