Wóng
surname · Latin script
Wóng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 黃／黄 (wong⁴) or 王 (wong⁴), via English Wong. Doublet of Ng, Uy, Wee, Hwang, Huang, Ong, Wang, and Heng.
- USUnited States1 in 3K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 4.9K
- GYGuyana1 in 1.2K
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
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
111,371 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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, CR Costa Rica.
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.
Sources 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 in the world(measured from records)
Wóng 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 | — | 111,371 | 1 in 3K | 112K | Wong | 265 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,476 | 1 in 7K | 2.5K | — | 16 |
| CR Costa Rica | #275 | 1,044 | 1 in 4.9K | 1K | Wong | 56 |
| ES Spain | — | 833 | 1 in 60K | 833 | — | 72 |
| GY Guyana | — | 649 | 1 in 1.2K | 649 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 494 | 1 in 11K | 494 | — | 4 |
111,371 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Wóng 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.
- In which country does Wóng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Wóng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wong.
- Where is Wóng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wóng is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wóng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111,371 people named Wóng in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Wóng compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Wóng is the 275th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%B3ngThe 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, “Wóng” — the 275th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.