Ñğ
surname · Latin script
Ñğ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From various Chinese surnames, including: * Cantonese 吳／吴 (ng⁴) or 伍 (ng⁵) * Hakka 吳／吴 (Ǹg) or 伍 (Ńg) * Hokkien 黃／黄 (N̂g) * Teochew 阮 (Ńg) The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog ng.
- USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 20K
- FIFinland1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
31,210 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ng in US United States, HK Hong Kong.
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)From various Chinese surnames, including: * Cantonese 吳／吴 (ng⁴) or 伍 (ng⁵) * Hakka 吳／吴 (Ǹg) or 伍 (Ńg) * Hokkien 黃／黄 (N̂g) * Teochew 阮 (Ńg) The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog ng.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ñğ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 31,210 | 1 in 11K | 33K | Ng | 52 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 555 | 1 in 31K | 555 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 420 | 1 in 504K | 420 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 251 | 1 in 20K | 251 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 219 | 1 in 25K | 219 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 174 | 1 in 31K | 174 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | #806 | — | — | 391 | Ng | 27 |
31,210 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); This page contains a database of Hong Konger surnames and first names categorized by frequency and gender, published by; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñğ mean, and where does it come from?
- From various Chinese surnames, including: * Cantonese 吳／吴 (ng⁴) or 伍 (ng⁵) * Hakka 吳／吴 (Ǹg) or 伍 (Ńg) * Hokkien 黃／黄 (N̂g) * Teochew 阮 (Ńg) The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog ng. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ñğ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Ñğ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ng.
- Where is Ñğ most common?
- Ñğ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ñğ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,210 people named Ñğ in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñğ compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Ñğ is the 806th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1%C4%9FThe 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, “Ñğ” — the 806th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.