Name

Name THAN

Between 1909 and 2022 there were 28 births of Than in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Than per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 1 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Than
In Italiano

Nome Than

Information about the first name Than

The first name Than has been assigned to:

64.29% to boys
35.71% to girls

The country where the first name Than is the most common is:

Switzerland

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 4 letters including 1 vowel and 3 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Than

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Than : Hnat, Nath, Náth, Nhat, Nhât, Nhất, Nhật, Nhặt, Tahn, Tanh

Than in Japanese ^*

Romaji	san
Katakana	サン
Hiragana	さん
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Than in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Than

English

Etymology

From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.

Etymology

Borrowing from Burmese သန်း (san:) or Khmer ថន (thɑɑn).

Adverb

than (not comparable)
(now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling) At that time; then.

Alternative forms

'n (nonstandard)
thanne (obsolete)
then (obsolete)

Anagrams

-anth, Hnat, Nath, ha'n't, ha'nt, han't, hant, tahn

Anagrams

-anth, Hnat, Nath, ha'n't, ha'nt, han't, hant, tahn

Preposition

than
introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
No player is more skillful than Greg.

Pronunciation

(stressed) enPR: thăn, thĕn, IPA(key): /ðæn/, /ðɛn/
Rhymes: -æn, -ɛn
(unstressed) enPR: thən, IPA(key): /ðən/, [ðn̩]
Homophone: then (unstressed or, for some speakers, stressed)

Proper noun

Than (plural Thans)
A surname.
Thangadh, a town in the Indian state of Gujarat.
A village in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

Proper noun (Statistics)

According to the 2010 United States Census, Than is the 14,930th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1,983 individuals. Than is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (93.9 per cent) individuals.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English þonne.

Adverb

than
then
14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.
And when he had drunk all the wineHe would not speak a word other than Latin

Alternative forms