Chang An

in the US

There are 68 people with the name "Chang An" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

Name	Rank
Chang	1,632
An	4,194
Chang An	316,775

is 1,628th most common Amparo
is 1,629th most common Mariano
is 1,630th most common Gilda
is 1,631st most common Marcelino
is 1,632nd most common Chang
is 1,633rd most common Chun
is 1,634th most common Augustine
is 1,635th most common Meagan
is 1,636th most common Jayson

is 4,190th most common Worthy
is 4,191st most common Travers
is 4,192nd most common Reuter
is 4,193rd most common Lemieux
is 4,194th most common An
is 4,195th most common Burchett
is 4,196th most common Dykstra
is 4,197th most common Register
is 4,198th most common Dong

is 316,771st most common Chad Dalton
is 316,772nd most common Chad Gregory
is 316,773rd most common Chad Marsh
is 316,774th most common Chad Robbins
is 316,775th most common Chang An
is 316,776th most common Chang Shin
is 316,777th most common Charlene Hanson
is 316,778th most common Charlene Richards
is 316,779th most common Charlene Snyder

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Meaning & History

Chang

Chinese 安: from the name of the ancient country known in China as AnXi, located in present-day Uzbekistan. Traditional accounts record that the legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 BC) had a grandson named An (the character for ‘peace’) who moved to the far west to establish AnXi, losing contact with the Middle Kingdom. When the people of AnXi decided to return to China during the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), they adopted their tribal name, An, as their surname.

Korean: there is only one Chinese character for the An surname; it means ‘peace’. Some sources indicate that there are 109 An clans, but only six can be documented. All had one common founding ancestor, named Yi Wǒn, who migrated from China to Shilla Korea in AD 807. Yi's three sons played a major role in resisting Japanese aggression during the reign of the Shilla King Kyǒngmun (861–875) and received the surname as a reward from the king. It is now quite a common Korean surname and can be found throughout the peninsula.