Нг
given name · Cyrillic script
Meaning: initialism of Но́вый год (Nóvyj god)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Нг is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 12M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11Kas Ng
- CRCosta Rica1 in 20Kas Ng
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 Нг 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
31,210 named Ng, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
initialism of Но́вый год (Nóvyj god)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Нг 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 | — | 31,210as Ng | 1 in 11K | 33K | Ng | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 555as Ng | 1 in 31K | 555 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 420as Ng | 1 in 504K | 420 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 251as Ng | 1 in 20K | 251 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 219as Ng | 1 in 25K | 219 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 174as Ng | 1 in 31K | 174 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Нг | 36 |
| HK Hong Kong | #958 | — | — | 391 | Ng | 21 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Нг is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kum, The nineteenth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Plaek Phibunsongkhramb. 1897THnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Thailand, 1938–44 and 1948–57 (1897–1964)
- Momofuku Andob. 1910JPnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
- Chien-Shiung Wub. 1912USnot in their usual nameChinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
- Wu Yib. 1938CNnot in their usual nameVice Premier of China
- Goh Chok Tongb. 1941SGnot in their usual name2nd Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004
- John Woob. 1946CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer
- John Loneb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Ping Wub. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Daniel Wub. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Kris Wub. 1990CNnot in their usual nameChinese-born Canadian rapper and convicted sex criminal (1990–)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Нг mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of Но́вый год (Nóvyj god) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Нг a male or female name?
- Нг is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Нг have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Ng, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Нг?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,210 people named Ng in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Нг compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Нг is the 958th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Нг?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BD%D0%B3The 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, “Нг” — the 958th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.