Given name & surname
Phan
“one who shares with others”
Phan is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who shares with others.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who shares with others.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Phan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 20 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,261 as a first name in 2020; 48,064 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Phan’s family of names
Phan may belong to the same name family as PHANN. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Phan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Phan, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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