Shan
At the 2020 census, 2,789 Americans bore the surname Shan — 10,909th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 107,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 2,789
- Rank
- 10,909th
- How common
- 1 in 107,000
- Per 100,000
- 0.93
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Shan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Shan
- Liu Shan (207–271)Chinese emperor of Shu Han from 223 to 263
- Paul Shan Kuo-hsi (1923–2012)Catholic cardinal
- Shan Sa (born 1972)French author and painter
- Shan Xiaona (born 1983)German table tennis player
- Lee Lai Shan (born 1970)champion windsurfer
- Zhang Shan (born 1968)Chinese sport shooter
- Joseph Li Shan (born 1965)Chinese Catholic bishop
- Catherine Shan (1952–2018)Senegalese novel and film script writer
People named Shan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Shan
Also a first name
Shan has been given to 3,088 American babies as a first name since 1944, peaking in 1969. 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.