Dungan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Muslim people originally from north-west China who currently reside in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdəŋɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dungan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 82K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 87K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 113K
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)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
3,819 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Muslim people originally from north-west China who currently reside in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dungan 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 | 3,819 | 1 in 87K | 3.8K | Dungan | 312 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Dungan | 35 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Dungan | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Dungan | 58 |
| CA Canada | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Dungan | 33 |
| CU Cuba | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Dungan | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Dungan | 45 |
| SG Singapore | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Dungan | 3 |
3,819 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. 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)
Dungan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bik, simultaneous; coinciding
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, simultaneously
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)
- Warren S. Dunganb. 1822USAmerican politician in Iowa (1822-1913)
- James Irvine Dunganb. 1844USAmerican politician (1844–1931)
- Sam Dunganb. 1866USAmerican baseball player
- Flora Dunganb. 1917USAmerican politician and community activist
- Ralph A. Dunganb. 1923USAmerican diplomat (1923-2013)
- David Laird Dunganb. 1936USAmerican academic (1936-2008)
- Myles Dunganb. 1954IEIrish broadcaster and author
- Sebastian Dunganb. 1972US21st-century American film producer
- George Dungan IIIb. 1988USAmerican politician
- Hugh E DunganUSDungan, Hugh E; class of 1850
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #8,056 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,915 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Dungan mean, and where does it come from?
- A Muslim people originally from north-west China who currently reside in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dungan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdəŋɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dungan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Dungan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dungan.
- How common is the name Dungan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,819 people named Dungan in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dunganThe 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, “Dungan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.