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Meaning & Origins
(Chinese) ‘Beautiful jade tinkle’. See Ling 2.
| 21,515th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Chinese 谭: from the name of the state of Tan during the Zhou dynasty. After Wu Wang established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 BC, he enfeoffed the state of Tan to a descendant of the model emperor Yu (2205–2198 BC), with the status of Viscount. Descendants adopted the name of the state Tan as their surname.
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