Wòng
surname · Latin script
Wòng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 黃／黄 (wong⁴) or 王 (wong⁴), via English Wong. Doublet of Ng, Uy, Wee, Hwang, Huang, Ong, Wang, and Heng.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 19(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 100
- SGSingapore≈1 in 200
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- #572 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 591 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19 (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wong in US United States, MY Malaysia, CA Canada and 2 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)- Cantonese黃／黄wong⁴(measured from records)
- EnglishWong(measured from records)
From Cantonese 黃／黄 (wong⁴) or 王 (wong⁴), via English Wong. Doublet of Ng, Uy, Wee, Hwang, Huang, Ong, Wang, and Heng.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Wòng is found
(measured from records)Wòng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #2 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 19 | 1K | Wong | 209 |
| MY Malaysia | #11 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 101 | 2.4K | Wong | 198 |
| US United States | #224 | 111,371 | 1 in 3K | 112K | Wong | 591 |
| CA Canada | #35 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 859 | — | Wong | 336 |
| SG Singapore | #5 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 197 | — | Wong | 233 |
| PW Palau | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 602 | 268 | — | 3 |
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; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); This page contains a database of Hong Konger surnames and first names categorized by frequency and gender, published by; This page discusses Palauan surnames, highlighting their cultural significance and frequency, published by the National. 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 Wòng mean, and where does it come from?
- From Cantonese 黃／黄 (wong⁴) or 王 (wong⁴), via English Wong. Doublet of Ng, Uy, Wee, Hwang, Huang, Ong, Wang, and Heng. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wòng?
- Mondonomo estimates about 393 thousand people named Wòng in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wong. After it come Malaysia, United States, Canada and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wòng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111,371 people named Wòng in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Wòng compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Wòng is the 2nd most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%B2ngThe 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, “Wòng” — ranked 2nd in Hong Kong (This page contains a database of Hong Konger surnames and first names categorized by frequency and gender, published by). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.