An Family History

An Name Meaning: Chinese : 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 W{ou}n, 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 Ky{ou}ngmun (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.

117,320 Historical Documents with An on Ancestry: 53,319 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths; 34,085 Census and Voter Lists; 5,190 Military Records; 10,615 Immigration Records; 14,111 Member Trees

Ready to discover your family story?

Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.

Your name*

Last name

Age*

Gender

Male

Female

An census records

You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the An surname lived over the years.

While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.

View all An census records >

from the New York Passengers List

Click on a place to view An immigration records

The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the An families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.

Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.

View all An immigration records >

Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your An ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social and economic status.

View all An Census records >

Did the Ans fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.

Search for An in Military records >

An Family History

Ready to discover your family story?

Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.

Name Distribution of An Families

An census records

An Family Origin

Click on a place to view An immigration records

An Family Occupations

Military Service by An