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Indigenous surname · Maya

Tun

"stone"

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TOON

Where it comes from

Yucatec tun (stone; also the 360-day year)

Meaning of the surname Tun

Tun is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "stone". It is a regional surname. Common in Yucatán and Campeche.

Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.

In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Tun appears as either half of a pair: Tun García, López Tun. Read how the two-surname system works.

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