Hoàng
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese reading of 黃
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
Hoàng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 89(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 6K
- CZCzechia1 in 47K
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 Hoàng 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #490 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoang in VN Vietnam, US United States.
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)Sino-Vietnamese reading of 黃
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hoàng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #4 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | 5 | Hoang | 259 |
| US United States | — | 72,328as Huang | 1 in 4.6K | 98K | Hoang | 193 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,439as Huang | 1 in 9.2K | 5.4K | — | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Hoàng | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,029as Huang | 1 in 11K | 4K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 914 | 1 in 6K | 914 | — | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 856as Huang | 1 in 6.5K | 856 | — | 14 |
| MO Macao | #166 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Hoàng | 2 |
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: This page is a comprehensive guide to Vietnamese last names published by Vietnam Teaching Jobs, offering insights into t; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Hoàng 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.
In Vietnamese, Họ gốc; tại Nam Hà đọc trại thành Huỳnh vì kiêng húy chúa Nguyễn Hoàng.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: nhà vua tối cao; tương ứng Empereur, Lempereur, Kaiser.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; tên chúa Nguyễn, cùng bộ thủy.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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)- Huang Xianfanb. 1899CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
- Anna May Wongb. 1905USnot in their usual nameChinese American actress (1905-1961)
- James Wongb. 1959USnot in their usual nameHong Kong and American director, screenwriter and producer
- B. D. Wongb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Anthony Wong Chau-sangb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, screenwriter and film producer (*1961)
- Jensen Huangb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
- Penny Wongb. 1968MYnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
- Lawrence Wongb. 1972SGnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Singapore since 2024
- Taob. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese singer-songwriter, rapper and actor
- Joshua Wongb. 1996CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong politician
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 13 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 10 | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Hoàng mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 黃 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hoàng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Hoàng in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoang.
- How common is the name Hoàng?
- In Norway, the national register counted 914 people named Hoàng, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoàng compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hoàng is the 4th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hoàng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ho%C3%A0ngThe 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, “Hoàng” — the 4th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.