Zhēng
surname · Latin script
Zhēng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 鄭／郑 (Zhèng).
- CNChina≈1 in 430(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 2K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 2.3K
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 Zhēng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 428 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cheng in TW Taiwan, HK Hong Kong, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Zheng in US United States, CN China, ES Spain.
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)From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 鄭／郑 (Zhèng).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zhēng 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 | #445 | ≈3,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 428 | — | Zheng | 201 |
| US United States | — | 32,982as Cheng | 1 in 10K | 43K | Zheng | 359 |
| TW Taiwan | #131 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Cheng | 199 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,286 | 1 in 8K | 6.3K | Zheng | 63 |
| MY Malaysia | #307 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Cheng | 105 |
| HK Hong Kong | #21 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Cheng | 139 |
| SG Singapore | #112 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Cheng | 129 |
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)- Zheng Guangb. 759Tang dynasty person CBDB = 143234
- Zheng Chengperson, CBDB = 165906
- Zheng JinTang dynasty person CBDB = 165907
- Zheng HengweiTang dynasty person CBDB = 165908
- Hua ZhengCNChinese microbiologist and mycologist
- Zheng JiSong dynasty literatus
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 Zhēng mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 鄭／郑 (Zhèng). Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Zhēng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 million people named Zhēng in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zheng.
- How common is the name Zhēng?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,286 people named Zhēng, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhēng compared with other names?
- In China, Zhēng is the 445th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zhēng?
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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%93ngThe 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, “Zhēng” — the 445th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.