YánG

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佯

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

YánG is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 92nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 2.3M
  • FIFinland1 in 4.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

106,033 people, 2010

Sources
467 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yang in US United States, HK Hong Kong.

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)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佯

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

YánG 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.

Where YánG is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—106,0331 in 3.1K139KYang467
ES Spain—5,8241 in 8.6K5.8K—94
AR Argentina—1,5671 in 29K1.6K—3
FI Finland—1,2551 in 4.4K1.3K—29
SE Sweden—1,2451 in 8.2K1.2K—40
GY Guyana—921 in 8.2K92——
HK Hong Kong#92≈3 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Yang98

106,033 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

YánG is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Australia, China

    Languages: English, Korean, German

    Also written Yang, 양, Young, Янг, Liang

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, China, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Yang, Yäng, Ýåñg

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yang

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Argentina, Chile

    Also written Yang, Yâñg, Yáñg, Yäng, Ýång

  • Thai surname145 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, China, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao, English

    Also written ยาง, ยา, Yang, ยรรยง, Young

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

YánG is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Lao, n. uncle; parent's older brother. = n. parent's older brother, 8783 - /L&ig lénj 1. adj. unkempt, disorderly, untidy. 2. adj. cumbrous

    as a wordLao-English Dictionary

  • In raw, daytime.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Emperor Wen of Sui, b. 541Chen Ning Yang, b. 1922Edward Yang, b. 1947Philémon Yang, b. 1947Michelle Yeoh, b. 1962Yang Liwei, b. 1965Jerry Yang, b. 1968Charlie Yeung, b. 1974Yang Yang, b. 1991Yang Zi, b. 1992

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists YánG under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name YánG mean, and where does it come from?
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佯 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does YánG have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 106 thousand people named YánG, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yang.
Where is YánG most common?
YánG is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name YánG?
In the United States, the national register counted 106,033 people named YánG in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
How common is YánG compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, YánG is the 92nd most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.

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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, “YánG” — the 92nd most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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