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The FENG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,797 5512 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 7 95371 0 0
Change since 1880 +5790 +89859 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 525 3065 0.003 32
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FENG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,087 1395 0.006 62
New York 1,062 1524 0.006 56
Texas 396 4747 0.002 19
New Jersey 281 3035 0.003 33
Illinois 224 5207 0.002 18
Top States for FENG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,087 1395 0.006 62
New York 1,062 1524 0.006 56
New Jersey 281 3035 0.003 33
Massachusetts 178 4237 0.003 28
Maryland 145 3632 0.003 27

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

Classification and Origin of FENG

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 FENG 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 FENG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 107 1.85
Mixed Race 80 1.38
White (Hispanic) 40 0.69
Asian/Pacific 5,566 96.02
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FENG in historical publications

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

Similar names to FENG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FENG.

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 FENG

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