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An

in New York

There are 590 people with the last name "An" in New York.

Ranking in New York

Name	Rank
An	2,736

is 2,732nd most common Moulton
is 2,733rd most common Ramsay
is 2,734th most common Ring
is 2,735th most common Alonzo
is 2,736th most common An
is 2,737th most common Caro
is 2,738th most common Laufer
is 2,739th most common Mcgarry
is 2,740th most common Sadowski

Meaning & History

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.