Names of Hong Kong HK
The names that most distinguish Hong Kong from the rest of the world are Chan, Wong and Chun; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Hong Kong are Chun and Chan.
Written in Chinese, English.
- Population
- 7.2M
- Name forms recorded
- 11K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Hong Kong
6 naming traditions are in use in Hong Kong, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Hong Kong
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Chun | — | — |
| 4 | Ming | — | — |
| 5 | Ling | — | — |
| 6 | Ying | — | — |
| 7 | Kin | — | — |
| 8 | Ching | — | — |
| 9 | Yan | — | — |
| 11 | Yin | — | — |
| 12 | Hung | — | — |
| 13 | Yuk | — | — |
| 14 | Mei | — | — |
| 20 | Yiu | — | — |
| 21 | Ping | — | — |
| 22 | Wai | — | — |
| 26 | Ting | — | — |
| 27 | Hoi | — | — |
| 29 | Lee | — | — |
| 30 | Kai | — | — |
| 31 | Ada | — | — |
| 33 | Ivy | — | — |
No official register
Characteristic of Hong Kong
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Hong Kong holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Hong Kong are written in Latin (97%) and Han (3%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Chinese nameencyclopaedia
- Goody Feedweb
- Hokkienencyclopaedia
- Hong Kong – Naming, Cultural Atlasweb
- Hongkonger nameencyclopaedia
- Jyutpingencyclopaedia
- Learn Dialect SGweb
- List of common Chinese surnamesencyclopaedia
- My China Rootsweb
- My China Rootsweb
- Romanization of Wu Chineseencyclopaedia
- SAYSweb
- Teochew peopleencyclopaedia
- Wu (surname)encyclopaedia
- Zhuang (surname)encyclopaedia
- Zhuang peopleencyclopaedia
- Zhuang surnamesweb
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Hong Kong?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in Hong Kong?
- No — 6 are described on this page (Chinese, Cantonese and Hong Kong, Hokkien and Min, Wu and Shanghainese, Zhuang, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Hong Kong”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/HK (data snapshot 2026-10-09).