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The surname Magnan

A surname, carried by 1,153 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M255

Magnan: #22,346 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Magnan #22,346, 1,153 people Magnan: #22,346 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Magnan #22,346, 1,153 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Magnan is more common than 86.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,153 people named Magnan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,776 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,109.

#22,346
rank among US surnames
1,153
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+4%
change since 2000 (was #21,848)

Who is named Magnan

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

87% of people named Magnan identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 87%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.3%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Magnan

Magnan has the Soundex code M255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M255.

Questions

How common is the surname Magnan?
1,153 people in the United States had the surname Magnan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,776 Americans. It ranked 22,346th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Magnan?
In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Magnan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Magnan getting more or less common?
More common. 1,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,153 in 2010, up 4.0%.