Hance

At the 2020 census, 4,121 Americans bore the surname Hance — 7,739th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 72,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,121
Rank: 7,739th
How common: 1 in 72,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Hann + the patronymic suffix. In Scotland, a contraction of Angus.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Hispanic or Latino 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hance

Rei Hance (born 1974)American actress and writer
Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886)British diplomat and botanist

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

Surnames like Hance

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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.