Fang

Fang is the 2,494th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,128 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,128
Rank: 2,494th
How common: 1 in 21,200
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

The county sense is from cmn 房. The surname sense could be from cmn, .

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.1%
White, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Fang

Fang Lizhi (1936–2012)Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident
Cao Fang (232–274)Cao Wei emperor from 239 to 254
Fang Fang (born 1955)Chinese writer
Fang Xuanling (578–648)Chinese statesman and writer
Liu Fang (born 1974)Canadian musician
Fang Yuting (born 1989)Chinese archer
Jing Fang (77 BC–36 BC)astronomer and mathematician (died 37 BCE)
Mei Fang (born 1989)Chinese Professional Footballer

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

Surnames like Fang

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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.