An
loc · Latin script
Meaning: and Fyilding, trace their descent from Geoffrey Feilding, who fought under Henry III (1216-72)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
An is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 76as 안(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 828
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than An itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 828 (inferred from the name graph)
685,688 named 안, 2015
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 안 in KR South Korea, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
and Fyilding, trace their descent from Geoffrey Feilding, who fought under Henry III (1216-72). They hold the earldoms of Den¬ bigh and Desmond, and a branch of the family included the nov¬ elist Henry Fielding (7707—54). The given name Rudolph became popular in the family because of a claimed relationship to the Habsburgs, for which there is no documentary foundation.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
An counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #19 | 685,688as 안 | 1 in 76 | 719K | 안 | 210 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 828 | listed | — | 2 |
| IN India | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | 안 | 22 |
| US United States | — | 8,160 | 1 in 41K | 9.4K | 안 | 227 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | 안 | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 142 | — | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 7 | — | — |
685,688 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
An is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Crofton (d. 1610), who held high office under Elizabeth I and acquired vast estates when he accompanied Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy, into Ireland in 1565- Crombie Scots: habitation name from a place in the for¬ mer county of Aberdeens. (now part of Grampian region), so called from Gael. crom(b) crooked or the Brit. cogn. of this word, ancestor of W erwm.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
title Baron Congleton was selected in 1841 because of this connec¬ tion. They were established in Ireland after the Restoration, having been prominent supporters of Parliament in the Civil War. Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-gi), leader of the Irish Home Rule move¬ ment, was a member of this family.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
de Berneval or Barneval who took part in Strongbow’s expedition in 1172. He first held land in Berehavan, Cork, before the main land¬ ing in Leinster. The name has been Gaelicized as de Bearnabhal. Baron 1. English and French: from the title of nobility,
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Bellingham, who was sheriff of Tynedale, Northumb., in i2yg. They were established in Ireland by Robert Bellingham, who settled in Co. Longford in 1611. They gave their name to Castlebellingham in Co. Louth.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, don, are apparently descended from John August Svahn, a Scandi¬ navian immigrant who was married in Rotherhithe in i860. He was the son of Carl Svahn, a ship’s chandler. See also Swifter.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- An Jung-geunb. 1879KPKorean independence activist (1879–1910)
- Philip Ahnb. 1905USnot in their usual nameKorean-American actor (1905–1978)
- Ang Leeb. 1954TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
- Ahn Cheol-soob. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, software entrepreneur and tenured professor
- Andrew Ahnb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker
- Viktor Ahnb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameKorean-Russian short track speed skater
- Liu Yifeib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress and singer (born 1987)
- Yoson Anb. 1992CNactor
- Ahn Hyo-seopb. 1995CAnot in their usual nameCanadian-Korean actor and singer
- An Se-youngb. 2002KRSouth Korean badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 719K | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.4K | #3,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.2K | #4,353 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,831 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name An mean, and where does it come from?
- and Fyilding, trace their descent from Geoffrey Feilding, who fought under Henry III (1216-72). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does An have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 686 thousand people named 안, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name An?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,160 people named An in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is An compared with other names?
- In South Korea, An is the 19th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “An” — the 19th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.