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The FAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,701 5587 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 184 20535 0 4
Change since 1880 +5517 +14948 +N/A +17
Other Countries
Australia 457 3482 0.003 28
United Kingdom 334 11857 0.001 7
Top States for FAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,139 1407 0.006 63
New York 734 2341 0.004 39
Texas 335 5540 0.002 16
New Jersey 311 2828 0.004 37
Massachusetts 194 4071 0.003 31
Top States for FAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,139 1407 0.006 63
New York 734 2341 0.004 39
New Jersey 311 2828 0.004 37
Maryland 192 2914 0.004 36
Hawaii 38 2592 0.003 31

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

Classification and Origin of FAN

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 FAN 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 FAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 264 4.63
Mixed Race 106 1.86
Black/African American 29 0.51
Asian/Pacific 5,275 92.53
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to FAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAN.

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 FAN

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