Than

Than is the 10,664th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,861 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 104,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,861
Rank: 10,664th
How common: 1 in 104,000
Per 100,000: 0.96

Where the name comes from

Borrowing from my သန်း or km ថន.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.1%

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

Notable people called Than

Mór Than (1828–1899)Hungarian artist
Carl von Than (1834–1908)Austro-Hungarian chemist

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

Surnames like Than

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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.