Tran surname meaning

Tran is the unaccented form commonly used in English-language records for Vietnamese Trần. The surname is the Vietnamese reading of 陳, the Chinese clan surname associated with the ancient state of Chen. In Vietnam it also carries the history of the Trần dynasty, which helped make the name especially prominent. The old state-name route makes place the closest fit among this site’s four broad categories, though clan surnames do not map perfectly onto them. Chen, Chan, and Tan are related readings or spellings, while the accent in Trần is often dropped in US records.