Dan (name)

Dan
Gender	Unisex
Language(s)	English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Origin
Meaning	English: "valley"; Hebrew: "to judge"; Japanese (檀): Euonymus hamiltonianus;
Other names
Variant form(s)	English: Dann, Dane; Chinese, Korean: Tan;

Dan is a given name and surname in various cultures.

Given name[]

Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with disputed meaning. Dan is also a Hebrew given name, after Dan, the fifth son of Jacob with Bilhah and founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan. It is also (along with the variant Danny) a given name or a nickname for people named Daniel.

Surname[]

Origins[]

As an English surname, Dan is a variant spelling of Dann.^[1] Dann, another variant spelling of which is Dane, is a toponymic surname which came from Middle English dene and Old English denu, "valley".^[2]

The Hebrew surname Dan (Hebrew: דן‎) is a biblical name which refers to the tribe of Dan. As a given name it first appears in Genesis 30.^[3]

The Hungarian surname Dán is an abbreviation of Dániel.^[4]

There are multiple Chinese surnames which are romanised as Dan, including:

丹, meaning "red"
但

There are multiple Japanese surnames which are romanised as Dan, including:^[5]

檀, meaning Euonymus hamiltonianus, and also used in the names of various species of other trees, including sandalwoods
団 (Kyūjitai: 團), meaning "group"

There are three separate Korean surnames spelled in the Revised Romanization of Korean as Dan (Korean: 단; MR: Tan), each written with a different hanja. Bearers of each surname identify with a number of distinct bon-gwan, which are hometowns of clan lineages.^[6]

The most common, Cheunggye Dan (段; 층계 단), means "stairs". This character is also used to write the Chinese surname now pronounced Duàn in Mandarin.^[7] Major clans with this surname include:
- The Gangeum Dan clan ("Gangeum" being the Sino-Korean reading of the name of the city of Jiangyin in Jiangsu, China), who claim descent from [ja], a Ming Dynasty official whose great-great-grandson Dan Hui-sang was dispatched to Korea during the 1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea^[8]^[9]
- The [ko], who claim descent from Dan Gan-mok (단간목; 段干木), an official under Chungnyeol of Goryeo.^[10]^[11]
The second most common, Hot Dan (單; 홑 단), means "single" or "one". This character is also used to write the Chinese surname now pronounced Shàn in Mandarin.^[12]
The least common, Kkeut Dan (端; 끝단), means "end".^[13]

Statistics[]

In South Korea, the 2000 census found 1,429 people belonging to 437 households with the surname Dan meaning "stairs". There were also 122 people belonging to 40 households with the surname Dan meaning "single", and 34 people belonging to nine households with the surname Dan meaning "end".^[6]

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 284 people on the island of Great Britain and 13 people on the island of Ireland with the surname Dan as of 2011. There had been 177 bearers of the surname in Great Britain in 1881, primarily in Devonshire and Cornwall.^[14]

The 2010 United States Census found 2,599 people with the surname Dan, making it the 12,012th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,315 (12,317th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about half of the bearers of the surname identified as White, and one-quarter as Asian.^[15] Dan was the 1,670th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian.^[16]

People[]

Chinese surnames Dān (丹) and Dàn (但):

Dan Duyu (但杜宇; 1897–1972), Chinese film director
Judy Dan (但茱迪; born 1930), Chinese-born American actress
Yang Dan (neuroscientist) (丹扬), Chinese-born American neuroscientist

Japanese surnames Dan (檀, 団):

Kazuo Dan (檀一雄; 1912–1976), Japanese novelist and poet
Jirō Dan (団時朗), stage name of Hideo Murata (born 1949), Japanese actor
Fumi Dan (檀ふみ; born 1954), Japanese actress
Tomoyuki Dan (檀臣幸; 1963–2013), Japanese actor and voice actor
Rei Dan (檀れい), stage name of Mayumi Yamazaki (born 1971), Japanese actress
Mitsu Dan (壇蜜), stage name of Shizuka Saitō (born 1980), Japanese actress

Other:

Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), Russian Marxist revolutionary
Seaman Dan (born Henry Gibson Dan, 1929–2020), Australia Torres Straits Islander singer
Sergiu Dan (1903–1976), Romanian novelist
Pavel Dan (1907–1937), Romanian short story writer
Leslie Dan (born 1929), Hungarian-born Canadian businessman
Joseph Dan (born 1935), Hungarian-born Israeli scholar of Jewish mysticism
Marin Dan (born 1948), Romanian handball player
Matei-Agathon Dan (born 1949), Romanian economist and politician
Aurora Dan (born 1955), Romanian fencer
Călin Dan (born 1955), Romanian artist, theorist, and curator
Aubrey Dan (born 1963), Canadian businesswoman
Nicușor Dan (born 1969), Romanian activist and mathematician
Cristian Florin Dan (born 1979), Romanian football playmaker
Jo Jo Dan (born 1981), Romanian boxer
Paul Dan (born 1985), Australian rugby union player
Alexandru Dan (born 1994), Romanian football midfielder
Bill Dan, Indonesian-born American sculptor and performance artist
Liran Dan (fl. 1998–present), Israeli government official and media executive

References[]

^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 665. ISBN 9780192527479.
^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 668
^ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva H. (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins. New York: KTAV Publishing House. p. 181. ISBN 0881252972.
^ Kálmán, Béla (1978). The World of Names: A Study in Hungarian Onomatology. Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 9789630513999. OCLC 4664303.
^ Breen, Jim. "Japanese Names (ENAMDICT)". Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
^ "段". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^ "연안단씨(延安段氏)" [Yeonan Dan clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
^ "강음단씨(江陰段氏)" [Gangeum Dan Clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
^ "강릉단씨(江陵段氏)" [Gangneung Dan clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
^ "단(段)" [Dan]. Daejeon: Jokbo Museum. Retrieved 5 May 2019. The Jokbo Museum cites the following work for their pages on family names: 김진우 (2009). 한국인 의 역사 [The History of Koreans]. 春秋筆法 [Chunchu Pilbeop]. OCLC 502157619.
^ "單". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^ "端". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 665
^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
^ "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

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[1] Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 665. ISBN 9780192527479.

[2] Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 668

[3] Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva H. (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins. New York: KTAV Publishing House. p. 181. ISBN 0881252972.

[4] Kálmán, Béla (1978). The World of Names: A Study in Hungarian Onomatology. Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 9789630513999. OCLC 4664303.

[ENAMDICT-5] Breen, Jim. "Japanese Names (ENAMDICT)". Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 2014-04-14.

[SouthKoreaCensus2000-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b "행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

[7] "段". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2018.

[8] "연안단씨(延安段氏)" [Yeonan Dan clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2019.

[9] "강음단씨(江陰段氏)" [Gangeum Dan Clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2019.

[10] "강릉단씨(江陵段氏)" [Gangneung Dan clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2019.

[11] "단(段)" [Dan]. Daejeon: Jokbo Museum. Retrieved 5 May 2019. The Jokbo Museum cites the following work for their pages on family names: 김진우 (2009). 한국인 의 역사 [The History of Koreans]. 春秋筆法 [Chunchu Pilbeop]. OCLC 502157619.

[12] "單". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2018.

[13] "端". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2018.

[14] Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 665

[15] "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

[Monga-16] "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

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