Bang
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: state (a political division of a federation)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/baŋ˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bang is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 71K
- KRSouth Korea1 in 400as 방
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 Bang 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.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
129,559 named 방, 2015
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 방 in KR South Korea.
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)
probably from an. banga 'to beat', or from Bank; related to BAN in diminutives
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bang is read(measured from records)
Bang is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Vietnamese56%
state (a political division of a federation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Tên húy của vua Anh Tông; vì kỵ húy nên Yên Bang đổi thành Yên Quảng, sau là Quảng Yên.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
- English19%
A sudden percussive noise.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
a loud blow or sound
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- Indonesian7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bang in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bang 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 | #45 | 129,559as 방 | 1 in 400 | 130K | 방 | 145 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | listed | Bang | 138 |
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Bang | 14 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Bang | 2 |
| US United States | — | 4,676 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Bang | 160 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4,027 | 1 in 1.5K | 4K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 2,582 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.6K | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 470 | 1 in 22K | 470 | — | 4 |
129,559 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; the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Bang is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, probably from an. banga 'to beat', or from Bank; related to BAN in diminutives
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Danish, bang fearful, nervous (from the ON prefix bt + angr grief, sorrow).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Emperor Gaozu of Hanb. 256CNnot in their usual namefounding emperor of the Han dynasty (256–195 BC)
- Wei Bangb. 1437Ming dynasty person CBDB = 199504
- Xing Bangb. 1520Ming dynasty person CBDB = 204902
- Bang Arespacochagafilm producer
- Wang BangMing dynasty person CBDB = 251775
- Zhou BangMing dynasty person CBDB = 252077
- Du BangMing dynasty person CBDB = 263063
- Wang BangMing dynasty person CBDB = 294871
- Hu BangMing dynasty person CBDB = 332808
- Zhou BangMing dynasty person CBDB = 216662
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #9,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 423 | #9,006 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #14,069 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #16,486 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #8,119 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #9,695 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 5 | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | WGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bang come from?
- probably from an. banga 'to beat', or from Bank; related to BAN in diminutives Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bang?
- A machine transcription gives /baŋ˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- What does the name Bang mean?
- In Vietnamese, state (a political division of a federation)
- Is Bang a male or female name?
- Bang is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bang have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 130 thousand people named 방, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bang most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bang is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,676 people named Bang in 2010, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Bang compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Bang is the 45th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bangThe 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, “Bang” — the 45th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.