Vậng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vậng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a North Germanic surname, from derivatives of Old Norse vangr (“field”) (such as modern Swedish vång). * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Wang.
- USUnited States1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 4K
- DKDenmark1 in 5K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
48,036 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
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 Vang in US United States, NO Norway, FO Faroe Islands.
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)
* As a North Germanic surname, from derivatives of Old Norse vangr (“field”) (such as modern Swedish vång). * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Wang. * As a Hmong surname, from White Hmong Vaj, White Hmong Vaaj, or Khmer វ៉ាង (vaang).
Sources 2
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vậng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 48,036 | 1 in 6.9K | 56K | VanG | 131 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,352 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | VanG | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,166 | 1 in 5K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 116 | 1 in 88K | 116 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 61 | 1 in 91K | 61 | — | 1 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #486 | — | — | — | VanG | 5 |
48,036 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling vang. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vậng mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a North Germanic surname, from derivatives of Old Norse vangr (“field”) (such as modern Swedish vång). * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Wang. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Vậng a male or female name?
- Vậng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Vậng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Vậng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled VanG.
- Where is Vậng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vậng is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vậng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 48,036 people named Vậng in 2010, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Vậng compared with other names?
- In Faroe Islands, Vậng is the 486th most common surname of 497 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%E1%BA%ADngThe 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, “Vậng” — the 486th most common surname in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.