Tôn Thất (or Tôn Nữ for female) is a two-character Vietnamese compound surname, originating from the
Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn dynasty (, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...
. It is the surname for members of the imperial family that were not direct first-born descendants of the Emperor, and therefore considered
collateral relatives of the Nguyễn dynasty.
This surname was originally ''Tông Thất'' (), which is derived from a
Sino-Vietnamese word, meaning "clan members" or "
royal family
A royal family is the immediate family of monarchs and sometimes their extended family.
The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or empress, and the term papal family describes the family of a pope, while th ...
members".
The surname was changed to ''Tôn Thất'' () after
Thiệu Trị
Thiệu Trị (, vi-hantu, wikt:紹, 紹wikt:治, 治, lit. "inheritance of prosperity"; 6 June 1807 – 4 November 1847), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Miên Tông or Nguyễn Phúc Tuyền, was the third emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. He was th ...
(
né
The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...
: Nguyễn Phúc Miên ''Tông'') became the emperor due to
naming taboo.
Notable people
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Tôn Thất Đính (1812–1893), Nguyễn Dynasty mandarin
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Tôn Thất Thuyết (1839–1913), Nguyễn Dynasty regent
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Tôn Thất Xứng (1923–2018), South Vietnamese general
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Tôn Thất Thiện (1924–2014), South Vietnamese nationalist
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Tôn Thất Đính (1926–2013), South Vietnamese general
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Tôn-Thất Tiết (born 1933), music composer
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Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh (born 1947), Vietnamese diplomat and educator
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Hoan Ton-That (born 1988), Vietnamese-Australian programmer/entrepreneur
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Tôn Thất Vỹ Matthew (born 1988), Vietnamese-American philosopher and urologist
See also
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Nguyễn
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Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn dynasty (, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...
Notes
References
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Vietnamese-language surnames