Kang
Kang is the 985th most common surname in the United States, shared by 34,834 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,581.
By the numbers
- People
- 34,834
- Rank
- 985th
- How common
- 1 in 8,581
- Per 100,000
- 11.7
Where the name comes from
cmn ^康 or nan-hbl 江.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Kang described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Kang
- Han Kang (born 1970)South Korean writer
- Kang Seul-gi (born 1994)South Korean singer
- Kang Youwei (1858–1927)Chinese politician and scholar
- Sung Kang (born 1972)American actor
- Tim Kang (born 1973)American actor
- Song Kang (born 1994)South Korean actor
- Ji Kang (223–262)Chinese writer, poet, philosopher, musician and alchemist
- Kang So-ra (born 1990)South Korean actress
People named Kang with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Kang
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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.