Jennifer ist der häufigste Vorname unter asiatisch-amerikanischen Frauen; Hong und Phuong sind die einzigen unter den Top 25, die mehrheitlich Asiaten sind.
Bei den Männern ist Kevin überrepräsentiert, während Mohammad und Muhammad die einzigen Namen mit asiatischer Mehrheit in den Top 25 sind.
Blogbeitrag mit interaktiven Versionen, mehr Diagrammen, vollständig sortierbarer Tabelle und Links zu anderen Rassengruppen aus der Volkszählung 2020: https://nameplay.org/blog/asian-nhpi-american-names
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source: [2020 Census first and last name data, US Census Bureau](https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/2020-census-names-data.html)
tools: these are static screenshots of interactive charts built with d3 (drawing), Svelte (interactivity) and SvelteKit (loading/scaffolding).
I have a series of posts covering each of the 6 racial/ethnic groups in the census data, e.g. [https://nameplay.org/blog/asian-nhpi-american-names](https://nameplay.org/blog/asian-nhpi-american-names), with additional charts and sortable/filterable tables.
When I was a kid I thought Kevin was a spanish name because there was one guy in my grade named Kevin and he was Hispanic
Can there be a study on why the only people who name their kids Eunice are Koreans?
Wow I actually know an Asian for all 50 names on this list. We are so basic 🤣
American names…Mohammad.
I understand the popularity of the name but didn’t connect it with being “American”
So you can just call a Hispanic woman Maria and there is a good chance you are correct.
Ha I know a few Chinese-Canadian Jessica’s, Emily’s and Michelle’s. For guys, a lot of Kevin’s and Michael’s.
I have only ever met 3 people named Humphrey, all of them H1Bs from China.
rip vivian tran but kevin nguyen is still going strong 😭😭
also im willing to bet maria is being carried by filipinas even if its not their first name there’s a good chance its one of their middle names
I remember about 15 years ago we could look up the names of all the fellow students at mit, and we realized the most common name was Emily Chen. This kind of tracks with the data
I was looking at this website the other day, and came across the name Htoo in this category, which makes me wonder how names are categorized. I don’t know much about Burmese names, but from what I’ve read, Burmese people don’t have surnames. But immigration and filling out forms can cause people’s names to split up into a first and last name field, etc. Another thing is that I’ve seen peoples names written as Md before. It’s an abbreviation for Mohammed in Pakistan.
I’m surprised to see Linda and Susan so far down the list. I grew up around a lot of Chinese Americans and those names were really common.
This reads like the list of names from a grammar exercise workbook that kids use in school when studying English.
“Mary walks to the market.”
“Lisa has a pet dog.”
“Susan is the tallest student in her class.”
I kinda want to see rankings amongst the different Asian ethnic groups. I find that also plays a huge role. Among the Hong Kong/Cantonese Canadians I know, they tend to have very super old-school English names like Winston, Windy, Candy, Agnes etc.
Did this include South Asians and Middle Easterns or only East Asians ?
Filipina’s must not have said their real fist name or Maria would be up there