Hwang

Hwang is the 1,855th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,009 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,700.

By the numbers

People: 19,009
Rank: 1,855th
How common: 1 in 15,700
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

From Chinese 黃 (also cmn 黃, Korean 황..).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.5%
White, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Hwang

Hwang Kyo-ahn (born 1957)acting president of South Korea from 2016 to 2017
Hwang Hee-chan (born 1996)South Korean association football player
Hwang In-beom (born 1996)South Korean association football player
Hwang Dong-hyeok (born 1971)South Korean film director and screenwriter
Hwang Jini (1506–1544)Korean gisaeng, poet, dancer and philosopher
Yi Hwang (1501–1570)Korean Confucian scholar
Hwang Sun-hong (born 1968)South Korean association football player
Hwang Ui-jo (born 1992)South Korean association football player

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

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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.