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The MAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,425 6985 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,136 4912 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +3289 -2073 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 265 5841 0.002 16
United Kingdom 2,202 2726 0.005 48
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.

Classification and Origin of MAN

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 MAN 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 MAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 927 20.95
White (Hispanic) 121 2.73
Mixed Race 120 2.71
Black/African American 114 2.58
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.25
Asian/Pacific 3,132 70.78

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

Meaning of MAN in historical publications

MAN. A veiy usual tei-mination of English surnames, as Workman, Longman, Newman, Potman, Waterman — which explain themselves. There ai'e however some, of a local origin, which require a few remarks. In the XIII. & XIV. centuries, many jDersons received family names, not from the designation, hut from the sit Nation, of their residences. A plebeian, for instance, who dwelt at a grove, would be called William at the Grove, or more curtly, AVills. atte Grove. In the succeeding centuries the awkward atfe, sometimes softened to J.' was dropped, and the name became simply Grove, Grover, or Grove??;??. In like manner were formed Beckman from beck, Castleman from castle. Crouchman from crouch, Lakeman from lake, Parkman from park, and many others. See ER.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAN.

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 MAN

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