Chiang

Chiang is the 3,811th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,080 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,900.

By the numbers

People: 9,080
Rank: 3,811th
How common: 1 in 32,900
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From the cmn-wadegiles romanization of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese 江, "river", particularly the "Yangtze River".

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Chiang

Ted Chiang (born 1967)American science fiction writer
David Chiang (born 1947)Hong Kong actor and director
Doug Chiang (born 1962)Taiwanese-American film designer

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

Surnames like Chiang

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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.