Last Name CHAN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Glorious, brilliance, illustrious. Gaze, view. Exhibit, spread out, unfold, station, stand, upright, occupy, possess. Genuine, true, real.

Origin	Chinese, Jewish, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Slovakian, Portuguese, Belgian, Cambodian, Indonesian

Rank	459 (2000 US census)	764 (1990 US census)

Count	65,719 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

2.72%, or 1788 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.54%, or 355 total occurrences, as black,
91.01%, or 59811 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.04%, or 26 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.82%, or 1853 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.87%, or 1886 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Belarus middle names form the same way as Russian ones, in part due to general common history of the Russian and Belarus nationalities, and in part due to very close integration of all nationalities during the Soviet Union times. Follow the

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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