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The HAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,318 1617 0.008 75
United States (1880 census) 509 9525 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +19809 +7908 +0.007 +65
Other Countries
Australia 671 2406 0.004 41
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 7,255 407 0.021 214
New York 1,988 800 0.010 105
New Jersey 1,347 544 0.016 160
Illinois 981 1195 0.008 79
Texas 975 2281 0.005 47
Top States for HAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 7,255 407 0.021 214
Hawaii 200 425 0.017 165
New Jersey 1,347 544 0.016 160
Washington 830 781 0.014 141
Virginia 911 925 0.013 129

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HAN by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HAN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 435 2.14
White (Hispanic) 189 0.93
Black/African American 102 0.5
Asian/Pacific 18,406 90.59
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.06
White (Caucasian) 1,176 5.79

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HAN.

Similar names to HAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HAN

The following words are slight variants of HAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.