Zhang

122,053 people in the United States were counted with the surname Zhang in the 2020 census, making it the 252nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,449.

By the numbers

People: 122,053
Rank: 252nd
How common: 1 in 2,449
Per 100,000: 40.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of cmn 張.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Zhang

Zhang Ziyi (born 1979)Chinese actress and model
Zhang Heng (78–139)Chinese scientist and statesman (78–139)
Zhang Yimou (born 1950)Chinese filmmaker
Zhang Qian (199 BC–113 BC)imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BC
Zhang Zuolin (1875–1928)Chinese warlord and politician
Zhang Zilin (born 1984)Chinese beauty queen, actress and fashion model
Zhang Fei (167–221)Chinese military general
Zhang Jike (born 1988)Chinese table tennis player who was the 4th player to achieve a grand slam title

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

Surnames like Zhang

Zhao

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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.