Zhen

Zhen is the 6,297th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,198 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 57,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,198
Rank: 6,297th
How common: 1 in 57,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn ^甄.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 98.5%
White, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Zhen

Yuan Zhen (779–831)Chinese poet
Wang Zhen (1908–1993)Chinese military officer and politician
Wang Zhen (born 1991)Chinese racewalker
Peng Zhen (1902–1997)Chinese politician
Dai Zhen (1724–1777)Chinese scholar
Cao Zhen (185–231)State of Cao Wei general
Lady Zhen (183–221)first wife of Cao Pi, first ruler of Cao Wei
Wu Zhen (1280–1354)Chinese painter

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

Surnames like Zhen

Zheng

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.