Feng
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Chinese: nonstandard spelling of fēng
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: SSA, 2022
Feng is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 360(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.4K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 5.7Kfew records
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 358 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person from Feng, the name of various former places in China
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Feng is read
(measured from records)Feng is one spelling over 2 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.
- Chinese40%
nonstandard spelling of fēng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English35%
person from Feng, the name of various former places in China
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The Latin-script letter ʩ, used to transcribe a voiceless velopharyngeal fricative in the context of disordered speech.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)Feng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 358 | — | Feng | 189 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Feng | 128 |
| US United States | — | 6,049 | 1 in 55K | 16K | Feng | 326 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Feng | 32 |
| HK Hong Kong | #356 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Feng | 67 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Feng | 38 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Feng is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1’Sharp blade’. 2 ‘Wind’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, weibl. Vom. chinesischer Herkunft, der »Ahorn« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In cdo, To seize or hold 、vith the hand ； to move, to shake ； in coll. books, ； ilso means to adorn, to deck :
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
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)- Tien Fengb. 1928TWChinese actor (1928–2015)
- Bowie Wub. 1932CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong male actor, programme host, and singer
- Lei Fengb. 1940CNChinese soldier and communist icon (1940–1962)
- Hsu Fengb. 1950TWTaiwanese actress and film producer
- Frances Yaob. 1950USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American computer scientist
- Johnnie Tob. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker (born 1955)
- Raymond Lamb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Audrey Tangb. 1981TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer
- Liang Wenfengb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese businessman (born 1985)
- Liu Yifeib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress and singer (born 1987)
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)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #3,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #3,438 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Feng come from?
- person from Feng, the name of various former places in China Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Feng a male or female name?
- Feng is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Spain (INE): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Feng mean?
- In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of fēng
- In which country does Feng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 million people named Feng in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled feng.
- How common is the name Feng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,049 people named Feng in 2020, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Feng compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Feng is the 356th most common given name of 23,276 given names 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/fengThe 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, “Feng” — the 356th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.