Kan (surname)

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Language(s) Chinese (including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien), Dutch, Japanese, Korean, and others

Kan is a surname of multiple origins.

Origins

As a Chinese surname, Kan may be a spelling of the pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin spelling (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation): [1]

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The Dutch surname Kan originated both as an occupational surname for a potter or pewterer (from Middle Dutch kan , 'tankard', 'flagon', 'pitcher'), and as a reduced form of van de Kan, possibly a toponymic surname referring to De Kan in Veurne. [2] [3]

As a Japanese surname, Kan may be written using multiple kanji (e.g. 菅,  簡,  韓,  寛 ). [4]

As a Jewish surname, Kan is one of many variants of Cohen. [5]

As a Korean surname, Kan is the Yale Romanization and McCune–Reischauer spelling of the uncommon surname spelled in the Revised Romanization as Gan (Korean : 간; Hanja :  簡 ). The hanja for this surname is the same one which is used to write the Chinese surname Jiǎn mentioned above. The bearers of this surname in Korea identify with a number of bon-gwan , which are hometowns of a clan lineage. [6] The most common of these is the Gapyeong Gan clan  [ ko ]. The clan's founding ancestor Gan Gyun (간균;簡筠), an official under Myeongjong of Goryeo, settled in Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi Province, which became the clan hometown. [7] [8]

Additionally, Kan may be a transcription of the common Korean surname Kang (Korean: 강; Hanja:  姜,  江,  康 ) via the Kontsevich system spelling in the Cyrillic alphabet (Кан). [9] This spelling can be found among ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet Union (Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Koreans). [10]

Kan is also a Turkish surname. [3]

Statistics

In the Netherlands, there were 518 people with the surname Kan as of 2007, up from 246 in 1947. The increase is partly attributable to immigration from China and from Turkey. [3]

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, 715 people on the island of Great Britain and five on the island of Ireland bore the surname Kan as of 2011. In 1881 there had been seven people in Great Britain with the surname Kan, primarily at Middlesex. [1]

The 2000 South Korean census found 2,429 people in 753 households with the surname spelled Gan in Revised Romanization. [6]

The 2010 United States Census found 3,005 people with the surname Kan, making it the 10,647th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,705 (10,816th most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and one-tenth as White. [11] It was the 453rd-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1433. ISBN   9780192527479.
  2. ↑ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016 , p. 1433, entries #9 and 10
  3. 1 2 3 "Kan". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  4. ↑ Breen, Jim. "かん". Japanese Names (ENAMDICT). Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016 , p. 1433, entry #7
  6. 1 2 "행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "가평간씨(加平簡氏)" [Gapyeong Gan clan]. Saemangeum Ilbo. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  8. ↑ "가평간씨(加平簡氏)" [Gapyeong Gan clan]. Academy of Korean Studies . Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  9. ↑ Куротченко, К. Б.; Леонов, М. В.; Швецов, Ю. И. (2005). Корейский язык: Учебное пособие. Москва. p. 73.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ↑ Kho, Songmoo (1987). "Koreans in Soviet Central Asia". Studia Orientalia. Finnish Oriental Society. 61: 52. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  11. ↑ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay . Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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