Liàng
surname · Latin script
Liàng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩／两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.
- CNChina≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 280
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 150 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, 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 Liang in US United States, CN China, MY Malaysia and 4 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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩／两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Liàng is found
(measured from records)Liàng 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 | #545 | ≈9,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | — | Liang | 192 |
| TW Taiwan | #239 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 284 | — | Liang | 162 |
| US United States | — | 24,140 | 1 in 14K | 32K | Liang | 341 |
| MY Malaysia | #243 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Liang | 85 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Liang | 106 |
| HK Hong Kong | #157 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Liang | 75 |
| SG Singapore | #508 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Liang | 86 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zhuge Liangb. 181CNChinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)
- Tian Liangb. 1979CNChinese diver
- Huo Liangb. 1989CNChinese diver
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liàng mean, and where does it come from?
- The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩／两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Liàng?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 million people named Liàng in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liang. After it come Taiwan, United States, Malaysia and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Liàng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,140 people named Liàng in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Liàng compared with other names?
- In China, Liàng is the 545th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Liàng?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li%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, “Liàng” — the 545th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.