Qian

At the 2020 census, 5,191 Americans bore the surname Qian — 6,302nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,191
Rank: 6,302nd
How common: 1 in 57,600
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn 錢.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.0%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Qian

Sima Qian (144 BC–85 BC)2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
Zhang Qian (199 BC–113 BC)imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BC
Qian Xuesen (1911–2009)Chinese rocket scientist
Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998)Chinese literary scholar and writer
Qian Qichen (1928–2017)Chinese politician
Yang Qian (born 2000)Chinese sport shooter
Li Qian (born 1990)Chinese boxer
Zhou Qian (born 1989)Female wrestler

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

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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.