Chang

Chang is the 373rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 83,382 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,585.

By the numbers

People: 83,382
Rank: 373rd
How common: 1 in 3,585
Per 100,000: 27.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From the Wade-Giles romanization of cmn Wade-Giles romanization: Chang¹.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chang described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 87.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
White, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Chang

Michael Chang (born 1972)American tennis player
Eileen Chang (1920–1995)Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter
Jung Chang (born 1952)Chinese-British author
Iris Chang (1968–2004)Chinese-American journalist and author of historical books
Sarah Chang (born 1980)American violinist
Sylvia Chang (born 1953)Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963)South Korean economist
Chang Ta-chien (1899–1983)Chinese artist

People named Chang with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chang

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.