Given name & surname
Tran
Tran is a surname from Vietnamese. It is used in English, French, and Czech.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tran through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 687
- 128 boys · 559 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 36 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 girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 28 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,384 as a first name in 2020; 223,440 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.
Tran’s family of names
In English usage, Tran as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Chen. In French usage, Tran as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Vietnamese form Trần. In English usage, Tran as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Tan.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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