# Phan (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/phan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Vietnamese.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Vietnamese |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 37,836 |
| US rank (2010) | 918 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 8,160 people |
| Change since 2000 | +41% (26,903 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Phan.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Phan in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 1.3% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 96% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Phan in French Indochina and Vietnam.

## People named Phan

- Phan Bội Châu, 19/20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary
- Phan Văn Đức, association football player

## Similar surnames

Pham, Pan, Pane, Payne, Pena, Pina, Penn, Pino, Penny, Paine, Pine, Payan.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.