Kîng

surname · Latin script

Kîng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 465,422 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010, which ranks it 34th. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hokkien 龔／龚 (Kéng). Kîng is also written 광기 in Korean (Hangul) and კინგ in Georgian.

  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 144(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 371
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 530

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 Kîng 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.

United States (measured from records)

465,422 people, 2010

#194 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
629 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 144 (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Kîng in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Georgian

(measured from records)
KîngLatin(measured from records)
광기Kîng in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)
კინგKîng in Georgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled King in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.

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)

Borrowed from Hokkien 龔／龚 (Kéng).

Cited for this meaning 10

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Kîng is found

(measured from records)

Kîng 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 Kîng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#35465,4221 in 715465KKing629
PK Pakistan—≈450,000 est.≈1 in 561—King47
GB United Kingdom#29≈130,000 est.≈1 in 530—King356
CA Canada#26≈61,000 est.≈1 in 6789King296
AU Australia#23≈50,000 est.≈1 in 547—King316
NZ New Zealand#26≈10,000 est.≈1 in 527—King173
GY Guyana—2,0211 in 3712K—19
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—7051 in 144705—12

465,422 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)

Kîng is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname75 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, French, Catalan

    Also written King, Kïng, K'Ing, Kïńg, Kïñg

  • Chinese surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, China, Malaysia

    Also written King, K-Ing, Kîñg, Kïñg, Kïng

  • a separate surname61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written King, Kîñg, Kïng, Kìng, Kĭng

  • Portuguese surname27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Portugal

    Also written King, Kïng, Kîñg, Kïñg, Kîňg

9 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kîng 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 Kîng mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Hokkien 龔／龚 (Kéng). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Kîng?
In the United States, the national register counted about 465 thousand people named Kîng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled king. After it come Pakistan, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Kîng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kîng is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 144 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kîng?
In the United States, the national register counted 465,422 people named Kîng in 2010, about 1 in 715 residents.
How common is Kîng compared with other names?
In the United States, Kîng is the 35th most common surname of 6,282,806 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, “Kîng” — ranked 34th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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