How common is the surname Zhen?

3,661 people in the United States had the surname Zhen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,334 Americans. It ranked 8,941st of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Zhen?

Zhen is /dʒɛn/, one syllable.

Is the surname Zhen getting more or less common?

More common. 1,713 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,661 in 2010, up 114%.

Is Zhen also a first name?

Yes. Zhen is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Zhen

A surname, carried by 3,661 people in the United States.

Pronounced /dʒɛn/ 1 syllable Soundex Z500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Zhen is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甄 (Zhēn).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,661 people named Zhen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,334 Americans. That is up 114% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,713.

#8,941

rank among US surnames

3,661

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+113.7%

change since 2000 (was #15,661)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,936	Nickelson	3,664	84,265
#8,938	Galligan	3,663	84,288
#8,939	Cram	3,662	84,311
#8,941	Zhen	3,661	84,334
#8,944	Koger	3,660	84,357
#8,946	Blackstone	3,659	84,380

Who is named Zhen

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

99% of people named Zhen identified as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Asian and Pacific Islander 99%
White (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Two or more races 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Zhen

Zhen has the Soundex code Z500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z500.

Questions

Where does the surname Zhen come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甄 (Zhēn).
How common is the surname Zhen?: 3,661 people in the United States had the surname Zhen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,334 Americans. It ranked 8,941st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Zhen?: In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Zhen identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 0.6% as white (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Zhen?: Zhen is /dʒɛn/, one syllable.
Is the surname Zhen getting more or less common?: More common. 1,713 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,661 in 2010, up 114%.
Is Zhen also a first name?: Yes. Zhen is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.