Tran

At the 2020 census, 223,440 Americans bore the surname Tran — 101st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,338.

By the numbers

People: 223,440
Rank: 101st
How common: 1 in 1,338
Per 100,000: 74.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Vietnamese

Anglicization of Vietnamese Trần.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
White, not Hispanic 1.5%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Tran

Kelly Marie Tran (born 1989)American actress
Céline Tran (born 1979)French pornographic actress
Karrueche Tran (born 1988)American actress and model
Levy Tran (born 1983)American actress and model
Mervin Tran (born 1990)Canadian pair skater

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

Surnames like Tran

Also a first name

Tran has been given to 687 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1993. 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.