Juan (阮)
A Taiwanese surname.
阮 Juan
- Zhuyin
- ㄖㄨㄢˇ
- Pinyin
- ruǎn
- Wade-Giles
- Juan
- Further spellings of 阮
- Ruan
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Ńg The more common reading, according to MOE's name-reading tool, is Uán.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- ngion²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 61st most common surname, roughly 0.21% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
A plucked lute named for Ruan Xian (阮咸); it is also an ancient state.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the small Shang-era state of Ruan (阮) in present-day Gansu, which King Wen of Zhou conquered; its people took the state's name. The Jin poet Ruan Ji (阮籍) is a well-known bearer. Hall name (堂號): 陳留堂.
Saying it 我姓阮 — wǒ xìng ruǎn (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄖㄨㄢˇ), "my family name is 阮"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).