Muang
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Muang is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 71st most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4Kas Vink(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3Kas Wong
- CNChina≈1 in 84Kas หวัง
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 Muang 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
111,371 named Wong, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vink in NL Netherlands, FI Finland, Vong in US United States, Angel in ES Spain and Wang in CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muang 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 | — | 111,371as Wong | 1 in 3K | 264K | Vong | 287 |
| CN China | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Wang | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,616as Wang | 1 in 3.2K | 210K | Angel | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | #71 | 12,161as Vink | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Vink | 120 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,036as Wang | 1 in 1.1K | 5K | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,969as Wang | 1 in 1.9K | 3K | Vink | 4 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 10K | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 649as Wong | 1 in 1.2K | 649 | — | — |
111,371 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling wong. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); This article discusses the development of surname lists for Asian American ethnic identification published in the Popula; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Muang is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, dim vision, to blind, to deceive, to cheat, to conceal from
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, large coarse tea-leaves, nioh)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, learned, as a full shuttle
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, everywhere, (chéu-chéu)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to limp, to walk lamely
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, full allowance
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 224 | #33,205 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #33,205 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Muang have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Wong, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Muang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111,371 people named Wong in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Muang compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Muang is the 71st most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Muang?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muangThe 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, “Muang” — the 71st most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.