Young An

in the US

There are 113 people with the name "Young An" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

Name	Rank
Young	927
An	4,194
Young An	171,879

is 923rd most common Tabitha
is 924th most common Gilberto
is 925th most common Fredrick
is 926th most common Miranda
is 927th most common Young
is 928th most common Candy
is 929th most common Horace
is 930th most common Cary
is 931st most common Ernestine

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 171,875th most common Yin Chen
is 171,876th most common Yolanda Rojas
is 171,877th most common Yong Chong
is 171,878th most common Youn Lee
is 171,879th most common Young An
is 171,880th most common Yuan Lin
is 171,881st most common Zafar Khan
is 171,882nd most common Zhong Li
is 171,883rd most common A Casey

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Meaning & History

Young

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.