San

San is the 8,090th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,922 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 76,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,922
Rank: 8,090th
How common: 1 in 76,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 79.9%
Hispanic or Latino 10.4%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called San

Aung San (1915–1947)Burmese revolutionary leader
An San (born 2001)South Korean female archer
Ayşe Şan (1938–1996)Turkish singer of Kurdish ancestry
Xiao San (1896–1983)Chinese poet and writer

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

Surnames like San

Also a first name

San has been given to 2,502 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1950. 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.