Han
At the 2020 census, 36,028 Americans bore the surname Han — 953rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,296.
By the numbers
- People
- 36,028
- Rank
- 953rd
- How common
- 1 in 8,296
- Per 100,000
- 12.1
Where the name comes from
An early romanization of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese 韓, an ancient Chinese placename.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Han described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Han
- Han Kang (born 1970)South Korean writer
- Han Fei (279 BC–232 BC)Chinese Legalist, 280–233 BCE
- Emperor Wu of Han (155 BC–86 BC)seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC–87 BC)
- Emperor Gaozu of Han (255 BC–194 BC)founding emperor of the Han dynasty (256–195 BC)
- Han Yu (768–824)Chinese historian, poet, philosopher and politician
- Han Duck-soo (born 1949)Acting President of South Korea (2024; 2025), Prime Minister of South Korea (2006; 2007–2008; 2022–2025)
- Han Hyo-joo (born 1987)South Korean actress
- Emperor Hui of Han (212 BC–187 BC)emperor of the Han dynasty
People named Han with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Han
Also a first name
Han has been given to 1,414 American babies as a first name since 1969, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.