The SHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,978	13994	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	359	12489	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+1619	-1505	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	44	28170	0	3
United Kingdom	406	10347	0.001	9

Top States for SHAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	534	7524	0.002	16
New York	278	10197	0.001	15
Illinois	177	11012	0.001	14
New Jersey	172	8432	0.002	20
Texas	128	17273	0.001	6
Top States for SHAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	172	8432	0.002	20
Maryland	84	9796	0.002	16
California	534	7524	0.002	16
New York	278	10197	0.001	15
Illinois	177	11012	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of SHAN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Pakistan

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of SHAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	926	46.81
White (Caucasian)	685	34.63
Black/African American	238	12.03
Mixed Race	72	3.64
White (Hispanic)	51	2.58
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.3

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

Similar names to SHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHAN.

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.