Paeng
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Paeng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 84th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Rafael + -ng.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 368as Pang(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.1Kas Pang
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.2Kas Pang
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 Paeng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 368 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 named Pang, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est., as Pang
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pang in US United States, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 3 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)
From Rafael + -ng.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paeng 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 | — | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Pang | 69 |
| MY Malaysia | #222 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Pang | 112 |
| HK Hong Kong | #105 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Pang | 112 |
| US United States | — | 10,316as Fang | 1 in 32K | 14K | Pang | 386 |
| SG Singapore | #84 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Pang | 141 |
| AU Australia | #980 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Pang | 168 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Paeng is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a diminutive of the male given name Rafael
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jun-Young PaengKRdentist ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0104-9338
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Paeng mean, and where does it come from?
- From Rafael + -ng. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Paeng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 401 thousand people named Pang in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paeng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,316 people named Fang in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Paeng compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Paeng is the 84th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paeng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paengThe 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, “Paeng” — the 84th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.