Fan

12,500 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fan in the 2020 census, making it the 2,805th most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,900.

By the numbers

People: 12,500
Rank: 2,805th
How common: 1 in 23,900
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From cmn 范.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.4%
White, not Hispanic 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Fan

Fan Bingbing (born 1981)Chinese actress
Fan Ye (398–445)5th century Chinese historian
Fan Zhendong (born 1997)Chinese table tennis player
Fan Zhongyan (989–1052)Chinese poet, politician, philosopher and writer
Fan Zhiyi (born 1969)Chinese footballer
Fan Li (499 BC–447 BC)early 5th-century BC Chinese political and military advisor
Fan Chengda (1126–1193)Chinese writer and scholar
Fan Kuan (956–1026)Chinese painter

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

Surnames like Fan

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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.