Guāng

surname · Latin script

Guāng is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in China. Recorded meaning: ‘Light’. Guangli $ ‘Making propriety bright’.

rarermore common
  • CNChina
  • TWTaiwan
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
205 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Guang in CN China, TW Taiwan, FR France.

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)

‘Light’. Guangli $ ‘Making propriety bright’.

Sources 2

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guāng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Guāng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China——Guang112
TW Taiwan——Guang55
FR France——Guang58
US United States—1.3K—205
ES Spain—79—27
SE Sweden—32—9
FI Finland—26—4

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Guāng 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 Guāng mean, and where does it come from?
‘Light’. Guangli $ ‘Making propriety bright’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
In which country does Guāng have the most bearers?
Guāng is most frequently recorded in China, where it is most often spelled guang.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gu%C4%81ng

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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, “Guāng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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