Then

See also: then

English

Etymology

  • As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony.
  • Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (blank; disk from which a coin is made), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (metal rod), or perhaps otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch).
  • Also as a German name, from the noun Tenne (threshing-floor).
  • As a Chinese surname, a Romanization of  / (dèng) (see Deng) and (tián) (see Tian).

Proper noun

Then (plural Thens)

  1. A surname.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Then is the 14227th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2108 individuals. Then is most common among Hispanic/Latino (65.75%) and White (24.43%) individuals.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hakka (dèng).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Then

  1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Hakka