Péng

Locally spelled Peng in US United States, MY Malaysia, CH Switzerland and 1 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.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Péng is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Chinese surname123 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, China, Peru, Taiwan

  Languages: Chinese, Spanish, English

  Also written Peng, Pen, Peñ, Пен, เป็น

• a separate surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in China, United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

  Also written Peng, Pèng, Pẻng

• French surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, China, Canada

  Also written Peng, Pëng, Pèng

2 further groups 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.

Péng is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倗

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In bnt-pro, be bent; be leaning

  as a word·Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

• In Luxembourgish, pain

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In cdo, the business of a cook, to dress food

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, a colloquial euphonic prefix

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, the creaking of a door, etc

  as a word·Dictionary of 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.

• Bing Jib. 150not in their usual namepolitician of Western Han Dynasty
• Gertrud Bingb. 1892DEnot in their usual namescholar and Director of the Warburg Institute (1892–1964)
• Bernice Bingb. 1936USnot in their usual nameChinese American painter (1936–1998)
• Bing Zhigangb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
• Anine Bingb. 1982DKnot in their usual nameDanish model
• Bing Hannot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 427276
• Bing Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 427277
• Peng Xiangperson, CBDB ID = 435571

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).

What does the name Péng mean, and where does it come from?

From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬／鹏 (péng). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.

In which country does Péng have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Péng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peng.

Where is Péng most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Péng is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Péng?

In the United States, the national register counted 10,575 people named Péng in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.

How common is Péng compared with other names?

In Malaysia, Péng is the 267th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.