VanG
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Hmong surname from the Hmong languages of Chinese origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
VanG is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 12th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 6.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
48,036 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A Hmong surname from the Hmong languages of Chinese origin.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
VanG 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 | — | 48,036 | 1 in 6.9K | 56K | VanG | 374 |
| CN China | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | VanG | 14 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | VanG | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | VanG | 56 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 530 | VanG | 9 |
| NO Norway | #959 | 1,352 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | VanG | 38 |
| DK Denmark | #195 | 1,166 | 1 in 5K | 1.2K | VanG | 98 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #39 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | VanG | 8 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #12 | — | — | — | VanG | 2 |
48,036 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling vang. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
VanG 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 Vietnamese, to echo; to resound
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, a meadow; an uncultivated, grassy piece of land
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, the brake wheel of a windmill, a brake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a meadow, grassy area, grassy plain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, accusative singular of vangr
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)
- Vera Wangb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican fashion designer (born 1939)
- Wang Yib. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese diplomat leader, Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office since 2023
- Wong Kar-waib. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese-born Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1958)
- Garrett Wangb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Wang Leehomb. 1976USnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer, songwriter, actor
- Wang Zhizhib. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1979)
- Yuja Wangb. 1987USnot in their usual nameChinese pianist
- Bee Vangb. 1991USAmerican actor
- Jackson Wangb. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese rapper and singer (born 1994)
- Tank Manb. 2000CNnot in their usual nameanonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- What does the name VanG mean, and where does it come from?
- A Hmong surname from the Hmong languages of Chinese origin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does VanG have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named VanG, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled VanG.
- How common is the name VanG?
- In the United States, the national register counted 48,036 people named VanG in 2010, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is VanG compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, VanG is the 12th most common surname of 30,187 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/vangThe 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, “VanG” — the 12th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.