Phan

48,064 people in the United States were counted with the surname Phan in the 2020 census, making it the 693rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,219.

By the numbers

People: 48,064
Rank: 693rd
How common: 1 in 6,219
Per 100,000: 16.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Vietnamese

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Phan

Phan Thị Kim Phúc (born 1963)Vietnamese–Canadian activist and photographic subject
Phan Văn Khải (1933–2018)Vietnamese politician
Phan Bội Châu (1867–1940)19/20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary
Michelle Phan (born 1987)Vietnamese-American YouTube personality
Phan Châu Trinh (1872–1926)Vietnamese nationalist in the 20th century

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

Surnames like Phan

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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.