Liêng

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Liêng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 392K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M

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.

Norway (measured from records)

540 people

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lieng in NO Norway, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Liêng 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 Liêng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway5401 in 10K540Lieng12
US United States2731 in 1.2M397Lieng20
SE Sweden261 in 392K26—1

540 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Liêng is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lieng, Li-Eng

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Ruan Lianb. 1475not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 29633
  • Wu Lien-tehb. 1879MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian physician (1879–1960)
  • Wang LianCNnot in their usual nameChinese Shu Han state official (died c. 223)
  • Gao Liannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 155199
  • Zhang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 225230
  • Wang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 336678
  • Lin Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321351
  • Wang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 210426
  • Huang Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321833
  • Chen Liannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 285329

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Liêng 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

Is Liêng a male or female name?
Liêng is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Liêng have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 540 people named Liêng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lieng.
Where is Liêng most common?
Liêng is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Liêng?
In Norway, the national register counted 540 people named Liêng, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.

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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, “Liêng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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