Tan Surname Origin & Formation

Origin and formation

Tan comes from the Hokkien surname Tân (陳 or 陈). It represents a pronunciation of the same Chinese surname that appears as Chen in Mandarin and Chan in Cantonese. The spelling Tan was borrowed into Tagalog and Cebuano, while the Chinese characters preserve the surname independently of its Roman spelling. Philippine bearers include the businessman Lucio Tan and the climate activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan. Lucio built businesses in banking, beverages, tobacco and aviation. Mitzi helped establish Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines, an organisation involved in youth climate advocacy.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ˈtan/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Cebuano: /ˈtan/ · Wiktionary ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Tan has 78 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts