Man

At the 2020 census, 12,463 Americans bore the surname Man — 2,810th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,000.

By the numbers

People: 12,463
Rank: 2,810th
How common: 1 in 24,000
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 43.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 26.8%
Hispanic or Latino 15.2%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Man

Ip Man (1893–1972)Hong Kong martial artist
Tank Man (born 2000)anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
Method Man (born 1971)American rapper and actor
Rag'n'Bone Man (born 1985)British blues and soul singer
Paul de Man (1919–1983)Belgian literary theorist
Zhong Man (born 1983)Chinese fencer
Big Boss Man (1963–2004)American professional wrestler
Beenie Man (born 1973)Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer

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

Surnames like Man

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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.