He

At the 2020 census, 26,687 Americans bore the surname He — 1,286th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,687
Rank: 1,286th
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 8.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From several Chinese surnames, especially.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.7%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called He

Zheng He (1371–1433)Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
Jiankui He (born 1984)Chinese biophysicist
Li He (805–816)Chinese writer
He Long (1896–1969)marshal of the People's Republic of China
He Pingping (1988–2010)world's shortest man who was able to walk
He Kexin (born 1992)Chinese artistic gymnast
He Wenna (born 1989)gymnast
He Zi (born 1990)Chinese diver

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

Surnames like He

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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.