Wōng
surname · Latin script
Wōng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 111,371 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 黃／黄 (wong⁴) or 王 (wong⁴), via English Wong. Doublet of Ng, Uy, Wee, Hwang, Huang, Ong, Wang, and Heng.
- GYGuyana1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 4.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
111,371 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
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 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Wōng is found
(measured from records)Wōng 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 Wōng 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 Wōng?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Wōng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wong. After it come Netherlands, Costa Rica, Spain and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Wōng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wōng 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 Wōng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111,371 people named Wōng in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Wōng compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Wōng is the 275th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C5%8DngThe 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, “Wōng” — ranked 271st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.