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The WAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,605 6747 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 274 15290 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +4331 +8543 +0.001 +12
Other Countries
Australia 583 2783 0.004 36
United Kingdom 1,720 3342 0.004 37
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 WAN

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 WAN 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 WAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 313 6.8
Mixed Race 122 2.65
Black/African American 90 1.95
Asian/Pacific 4,028 87.47
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 WAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of WAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to WAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WAN.

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 WAN

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