The PAYAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,780	6541	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	19	75237	0	0
Change since 1880	+4761	+68696	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PAYAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,683	2647	0.005	50
Texas	1,056	3075	0.005	51
Arizona	470	1869	0.009	92
Colorado	287	2748	0.007	67
Florida	234	11012	0.001	15
Top States for PAYAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arizona	470	1869	0.009	92
New Mexico	162	1504	0.009	89
Colorado	287	2748	0.007	67
Nevada	103	3276	0.005	52
Texas	1,056	3075	0.005	51

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PAYAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PAYAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of PAYAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	595	12.45
Mixed Race	64	1.34
Black/African American	48	1
Asian/Pacific	31	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.29
White (Hispanic)	4,028	84.27

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

PAYAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to PAYAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAYAN.

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.