Feng

16,357 people in the United States were counted with the surname Feng in the 2020 census, making it the 2,163rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,300.

By the numbers

People: 16,357
Rank: 2,163rd
How common: 1 in 18,300
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

The atonal pinyin romanization of the cmn 灃 and as the city and surname, its alternative form 豐.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Feng

Lei Feng (1940–1962)Chinese soldier and communist icon
Feng Bin (born 1994)Chinese female discus thrower
Feng Menglong (1574–1646)Chinese writer and poet
Feng Yuxiang (1882–1948)Chinese general and politician, took part in overthrowing Qing Empire, a warlord during the Republican era
Feng Guozhang (1859–1919)Chinese general
Feng Youlan (1895–1990)Chinese philosopher and historian
Feng Tianwei (born 1986)Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player
Feng Xiaogang (born 1958)Chinese filmmaker and actor

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

Surnames like Feng

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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.