Zhāng
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 傽 (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Zhāng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 18th most common surname. Zhāng is also written Чжан in Cyrillic, ซาง in Thai and Τσανγκ in Greek.
- CNChina≈1 in 19(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 640
- SGSingapore≈1 in 740
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zhāng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #552 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 491 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zhāng in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai, Greek and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zhang in US United States, CN China, AU Australia and 3 more and Chang in TW Taiwan, MY Malaysia.
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 傽
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zhāng is found
(measured from records)Zhāng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | #227 | ≈74,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 19 | — | Zhang | 275 |
| US United States | #287 | 81,939as Chang | 1 in 4.1K | 122K | Zhang | 491 |
| HK Hong Kong | #18 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 136 | — | Zhang | 130 |
| TW Taiwan | #96 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 642 | — | Chang | 235 |
| MY Malaysia | #184 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Chang | 98 |
| AU Australia | #44 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Zhang | 262 |
| ES Spain | — | 13,201 | 1 in 3.8K | 13K | Zhang | 105 |
| SG Singapore | #24 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 735 | — | Zhang | 142 |
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). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zhang Qianb. 200CNimperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BC
- Maggie Cheungb. 1964GBnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Zhang Ziyib. 1979CNChinese actress and model
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhāng mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 傽 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zhāng?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 million people named Zhāng in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhang. After it come United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zhāng?
- In Spain, the national register counted 13,201 people named Zhāng, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhāng compared with other names?
- In China, Zhāng is the 227th most common surname of 142,871 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/zh%C4%81ngThe 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, “Zhāng” — the 227th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.