Sen

At the 2020 census, 4,183 Americans bore the surname Sen — 7,628th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,183
Rank: 7,628th
How common: 1 in 71,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Bengali

Bengali সেন and/or Hindi सेन.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 75.9%
White, not Hispanic 15.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Sen

Amartya Sen (born 1933)Indian economist and philosopher
Sushmita Sen (born 1975)Indian actress (1975-present)
Mrinal Sen (1923–2018)Indian film director
Aparna Sen (born 1945)Indian filmmaker, script writer and actress
Raima Sen (born 1979)Indian Bengali actress
Riya Sen (born 1981)Indian actress
Lin Sen (1868–1943)Chairman of the National Government of China
Reema Sen (born 1981)Indian actress

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

Surnames like Sen

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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.