K'Îng

surname · Latin script

K'Îng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Caledonia it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hokkien 龔／龚 (Kéng).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 715(measured from records)
  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 144
  • GYGuyana1 in 371

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

465,422 people, 2010

Sources
265 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 144 (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled King in US United States, NC New Caledonia and Kîñg in ES Spain.

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)

Borrowed from Hokkien 龔／龚 (Kéng).

Sources 10

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Where in the world(measured from records)

K'Îng 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.

Where K'Îng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—465,4221 in 715465KKing265
GY Guyana—2,0211 in 3712K——
ES Spain—8921 in 56K892Kîñg59
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—7051 in 144705——
BR Brazil—6161 in 344K616—1
NO Norway—4421 in 12K442—8
GD Grenada—831 in 1.4K83——
NC New Caledonia#21———King12

465,422 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists K'Îng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name K'Îng mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Hokkien 龔／龚 (Kéng). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
In which country does K'Îng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 465 thousand people named K'Îng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled king.
Where is K'Îng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, K'Îng is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 144 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name K'Îng?
In the United States, the national register counted 465,422 people named K'Îng in 2010, about 1 in 715 residents.
How common is K'Îng compared with other names?
In New Caledonia, K'Îng is the 21st most common surname of 1,911 surnames recorded there.

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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, “K'Îng” — the 21st most common surname in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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