Khan

101,770 people in the United States were counted with the surname Khan in the 2020 census, making it the 303rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,937.

By the numbers

People: 101,770
Rank: 303rd
How common: 1 in 2,937
Per 100,000: 34.1

Where the name comes from

As a surname, via inc-hnd خان / ख़ान, from fa-cls خَان, from trk. As a title, a proper noun form of khan.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 83.6%
White, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965)Indian actor, producer and television personality
Salman Khan (born 1965)Indian actor and producer
Aamir Khan (born 1965)Indian actor
Imran Khan (born 1952)22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan
Sadiq Khan (born 1970)British politician, Mayor of London
Ögedei Khan (1186–1241)Khan of the Mongol Empire (c.1186-1241) (r. 1229-1241)
Ayub Khan (1907–1974)President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969
Saif Ali Khan (born 1970)Indian film actor and producer

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

Surnames like Khan

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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.