Wen

8,535 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wen in the 2020 census, making it the 4,040th most common in the country. That is about one person in 35,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,535
Rank: 4,040th
How common: 1 in 35,000
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Wen

Wen Jiabao (born 1942)6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
Ming-Na Wen (born 1963)American actress and model
Liu Wen (born 1988)Chinese model
Sun Wen (born 1973)Chinese footballer
Wen Tianxiang (1236–1283)Chinese politician of the Song Dynasty
Jiang Wen (born 1963)Chinese actor, screenwriter, and director
Wen Yiduo (1899–1946)Chinese poet and scholar
Wen Zhengming (1470–1559)Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet from the Ming dynasty

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

Surnames like Wen

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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.