Sheung
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sheung is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
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 Sheung 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 named 시흥, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 시흥 in KR South Korea.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sheung 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | 시흥 | 9 |
| US United States | 212 | 1 in 1.6M | 109 | Sheung | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | — | — | — | Sheung | 11 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Li Xiaoshuangb. 1973CNnot in their usual namegymnast
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 109 | #37,052 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103 | #37,052 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #35,450 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Sheung a male or female name?
- Sheung 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 Sheung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 323 people named 시흥 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sheung most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sheung is densest in the United States — about 1 in 1.6 million people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sheung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Sheung in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sheung?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheungThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sheung”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.