Guan

Guan is the 3,442nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,141 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 29,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,141
Rank: 3,442nd
How common: 1 in 29,500
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

From any of four Chinese surnames:, .

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.8%
White, not Hispanic 1.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

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

Notable people called Guan

Guan Yu (160–220)Chinese general serving warlord Liu Bei
Guan Hanqing (1210–1298)Chinese playwright and poet
Guan Zhong (719 BC–644 BC)Chinese chancellor and reformer (c. 720–645 BC)
Guan Daosheng (1262–1319)Chinese artist and poet
Guan Chenchen (born 2004)Chinese gymnast
Guan Xiaotong (born 1997)Chinese actress
Guan Ping (178–219)Chinese general serving warlord Liu Bei
Guan Xing (193–234)3rd century Chinese Shu Han state official

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

Surnames like Guan

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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.