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Gan is a surname. It may be a Latin-alphabet spelling of four different Chinese surnames ( Chinese: 甘, 干, 顏, 簡; respectively pronounced in Mandarin as Gān, Gān, Yán, Jiǎn), a Korean surname ( Korean: 간; Hanja: 簡; written using the same character as the Chinese surname Jiǎn), and a surname in other cultures.
As a Chinese surname, Gan may be one of the following surnames, listed by their spelling in Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: [1]
As a Korean surname, Gan is a variant spelling of the surname more commonly spelled as Kan (based on its McCune–Reischauer transcription).
Gan may also be an Irish surname, originating from Mag Gana. Another surname with the same origin is McGann. [1]
The Ashkenazi Jewish surnames Gan ( גן) and Gang are short for Gangolf, which itself originated by metathesis from the German masculine given name Wolfgang. Gan is further the origin of the patronymic surnames Ganer, Ganel, and Ganet. Gan also coincidentally means " garden" in Modern Hebrew. [4]
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, 328 people on the island of Great Britain and eight on the island of Ireland bore the surname Gan as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 40 people in Great Britain with the surname Gan, primarily at Durham, Northumberland, Lancashire, Argyll, and London. [1]
The 2010 United States Census found 2,891 people with the surname Gan, making it the 11,003rd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,301 (12,343rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian (up from three-fifths in the 2000 census), and two-tenths as White (down from three-tenths in the 2000 census). [5] It was the 310th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian. [6]
Language(s) | Chinese ( Mandarin, Hokkien), Korean, Old Irish |
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Other names | |
Variant form(s) | |
Derivative(s) |
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Gan is a surname. It may be a Latin-alphabet spelling of four different Chinese surnames ( Chinese: 甘, 干, 顏, 簡; respectively pronounced in Mandarin as Gān, Gān, Yán, Jiǎn), a Korean surname ( Korean: 간; Hanja: 簡; written using the same character as the Chinese surname Jiǎn), and a surname in other cultures.
As a Chinese surname, Gan may be one of the following surnames, listed by their spelling in Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: [1]
As a Korean surname, Gan is a variant spelling of the surname more commonly spelled as Kan (based on its McCune–Reischauer transcription).
Gan may also be an Irish surname, originating from Mag Gana. Another surname with the same origin is McGann. [1]
The Ashkenazi Jewish surnames Gan ( גן) and Gang are short for Gangolf, which itself originated by metathesis from the German masculine given name Wolfgang. Gan is further the origin of the patronymic surnames Ganer, Ganel, and Ganet. Gan also coincidentally means " garden" in Modern Hebrew. [4]
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, 328 people on the island of Great Britain and eight on the island of Ireland bore the surname Gan as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 40 people in Great Britain with the surname Gan, primarily at Durham, Northumberland, Lancashire, Argyll, and London. [1]
The 2010 United States Census found 2,891 people with the surname Gan, making it the 11,003rd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,301 (12,343rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian (up from three-fifths in the 2000 census), and two-tenths as White (down from three-tenths in the 2000 census). [5] It was the 310th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian. [6]