Jan

2,544 people in the United States were counted with the surname Jan in the 2020 census, making it the 11,775th most common in the country. That is about one person in 117,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,544
Rank: 11,775th
How common: 1 in 117,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 74.1%
White, not Hispanic 16.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Jan

Giorgio Jan (1791–1866)Italian zoologist

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

Surnames like Jan

Also a first name

Jan has been given to 76,934 American babies as a first name since 1902, peaking in 1956. 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.