Eng
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eng is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 466K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 640K
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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
- 399 (measured from records)
- 1 in 466K (inferred from the name graph)
714 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 68.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eng 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 | 714 | 1 in 466K | 11K | Eng | 399 |
| NL Netherlands | 27 | 1 in 640K | 17 | — | 40 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 16 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Eng | 105 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Eng | 64 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 1.8K | — | 32 |
714 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Eng is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Narrow.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, narrow, close
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Dutch, scary
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Swedish, archaic spelling of äng (“meadow”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)
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)
- Qiu Yingb. 1494CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1494–1552)
- Weng Wenhaob. 1889CNnot in their usual nameChinese geologist and politician
- Ing Chang-kib. 1917TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese banker and Go player (1917–1997)
- Ying Ruochengb. 1929CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor, translator (1929-2003)
- Judy Onggb. 1950TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-Japanese singer and actress (born 1950)
- Ying Dab. 1960CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and director
- Yvonne Yungb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer
- Eng Hianb. 1977IDIndonesian badminton player
- Cherrie Yingb. 1983TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-born Hong Kong actress
- Philipp Engb. 1990ATAustrian racing driver
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Eng come from?
- Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 68. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Eng?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Eng mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type.
- In which country does Eng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 714 people named Eng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eng.
- Where is Eng most common?
- Eng is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 466 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Eng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 714 people named Eng in 2020, about 1 in 466 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/engThe 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, “Eng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.