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From Mandarin 譚／谭 (Tán).

From Hokkien 陳 /陈 (Tân). Doublet of Chen and Tran.

From Mandarin 丹 (Dān), reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Tan¹.

From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu).

As a verb, from Middle English tannen, from late Old English tannian (“to tan a hide”), from Latin tannare.

From a Brythonic language; influenced in form by yan (“one”) in the same series.

Borrowed from Armenian թան (tʻan).

Borrowed from Cantonese 擔／担 (daam3).

From Middle English *tan, from Old English tān (“twig, shoot, switch”), from Proto-West Germanic *tain, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“rod, twig, straw, lot”).

It may either be a figurative use of the usual verb tan (“to cause to acquire a brownish colour”) or a Jamaican Creole pronunciation of turn, compare bun (“to kill particularly by gunshot”).