황
surname · Hangul script
Meaning: sulfur (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: KOSIS 2015 Census, 2015
/ɸwa̠ŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) Korean · from Wiktionary
황 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country: 697,475 people, counted by KOSIS 2015 Census in 2015. 황 is also written Hwang in Latin.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 74(measured from records)
- MOMacao≈1 in 580few records
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 100few recordsas Hwang
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 황 itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- #979 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74 (inferred from the name graph)
697,475 people, 2015
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea
measured from records inferred from the name graph
황 in other scripts: Latin and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hwang in US United States, CA Canada, MY Malaysia and 2 more.
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.
How to pronounce 황
- Korean:/ɸwa̠ŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sulfur
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname 황 is found
(measured from records)황 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #17 | 697,475 | 1 in 74 | 720K | 황 | 223 |
| KP North Korea | #36 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 101 | 13 | Hwang | 38 |
| US United States | — | 17,900as Hwang | 1 in 19K | 19K | Hwang | 420 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hwang | 149 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Hwang | 52 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 584 | — | 황 | 4 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Hwang | 36 |
697,475 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 황 mean, and where does it come from?
- sulfur Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce 황?
- In Korean /ɸwa̠ŋ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname 황?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 697 thousand people named 황, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 황. After it come North Korea, United States, Canada and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is 황 most common?
- 황 is densest in South Korea, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 people carrying it.
- How common is the name 황?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 697,475 people named 황 in 2015, about 1 in 74 residents.
- How common is 황 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 황 is the 17th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%ED%99%A9The 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, “황” — ranked 18th in South Korea (KOSIS). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.