Jahan

At the 2020 census, 2,601 Americans bore the surname Jahan — 11,562nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,601
Rank: 11,562nd
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.2%
White, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Jahan

Nur Jahan (1577–1645)Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
Rashid Jahan (1905–1952)Indian writer

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

Surnames like Jahan

Jahn
Jahnke

Also a first name

Jahan has been given to 877 American babies as a first name since 1971, 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.