Tain is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Tain
No. of characters: 4
Origin: England
Meaning:

Surname Tain is variant form of the Tame. An Oxfordshire name, probably from the river Thame. Alured de Tame occurs in Domesday. The armorials of this family, a dragon and a lion combatant, can hardly have been adopted upon the canting or allusive principle.

Tain is a form of the Temes. An old spelling of the river Thames.

How popular is Tain?

Tain is common in Iraq, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, United States, Spain, France, Liberia.

Tain is ranked 95394 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Tains plummeted by 5.68 per cent to 166 since 2000 and slipped by 11101 spots and ranked at 107134. The last name was found in merely 6 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 53.61 32.39
White 33.13 48.86
Hispanic or Latino 12.65 11.93
Tain is quite popular family name mostly used in Iraq however New Caledonia is ahead in terms of density. Around 4989 people have been found who wears Tain as their family name. Tain is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Tain:
1,532 Iraq1,053
Countries with hundreds of Tain:
7,774 Turkey902
19,450 Indonesia642
17,029 Thailand613
11,259 Bangladesh360
92,358 United States274
14,954 Spain207
63,144 France152
3,224 Liberia128
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
16,312 Malaysia99
4,017 Cuba65
34,455 Cameroon52
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
25,733 Papua New Guinea44
1,478 New Caledonia42
291,059 India39
71,984 Argentina35
217,805 Russia30
78,001 England28
86,474 Iran28
17,711 Venezuela24
35,659 Slovakia24
43,015 Pakistan22
161,175 Canada13
20,148 Uruguay12
329,557 Brazil11
17,932 Afghanistan11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
7,955 China9
975 Myanmar9
228,986 Philippines8
124,818 Australia8
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Tain Namesakes

  • John Munro of Tain, Presbyterian minister of Tain

Tain Namesakes

  • John Munro of Tain, Presbyterian minister of Tain

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