Gan

3,506 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gan in the 2020 census, making it the 8,958th most common in the country. That is about one person in 85,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,506
Rank: 8,958th
How common: 1 in 85,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from cmn, nan-hbl, etc.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 78.6%
White, not Hispanic 15.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Gan

Gan Ying (born 100)Late first century Chinese military ambassador
Han Gan (706–783)Chinese artist
Gan De (400 BC–400 BC)4th-century BC Chinese astronomer and astrologer
Gan Ning (175–222)General serving warlord Sun Quan (died c. 220)
Gan Ji (101–200)Chinese Taoist priest
Bi Gan (born 1989)Chinese director and writer
Luo Gan (born 1935)Chinese politician
Xu Gan (170–218)Chinese philosopher and poet

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

Surnames like Gan

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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.