Kwan

At the 2020 census, 8,373 Americans bore the surname Kwan — 4,115th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,373
Rank: 4,115th
How common: 1 in 35,700
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From any of four Chinese surnames:, .

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Kwan

Michelle Kwan (born 1980)American figure skater and diplomat
Nancy Kwan (born 1939)Chinese-American actress
Rosamund Kwan (born 1962)Hong Kong actress
Hwangbo Kwan (born 1965)South Korean association football player and manager
Stanley Kwan (born 1957)Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Jennie Kwan (born 1973)American actress
Kevin Kwan (born 1973)Asian-American novelist
Philip Chan Siu Kwan (born 1992)footballer

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

Surnames like Kwan

Kwak

Also a first name

Kwan has been given to 564 American babies as a first name since 1969, peaking in 1975. 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.