The surname Tun
A Burmese surname, carried by 1,908 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T500
Origin
Burmese origin
From Burmese ထွန်း (htwan:).
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,908 people named Tun in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,816 Americans. That is up 152% since 2000, when the Census counted 757.
Who is named Tun
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
75% of people named Tun identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 17% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 5.0% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 75%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 17%
- White (not Hispanic) 5.0%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tun has the Soundex code T500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T500.
Questions
- Where does the surname Tun come from?
- From Burmese ထွန်း (htwan:).
- How common is the surname Tun?
- 1,908 people in the United States had the surname Tun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,816 Americans. It ranked 15,370th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tun?
- In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Tun identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 17% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Tun getting more or less common?
- More common. 757 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,908 in 2010, up 152%.