Jiāng

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jiāng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 蔣／蒋 (Jiǎng).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 10K
  • FIFinland1 in 11K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

19,409 people, 2010

Sources
377 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jiang in US United States, ES Spain, HK Hong Kong.

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)

From Mandarin 蔣／蒋 (Jiǎng).

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jiāng 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.

Where Jiāng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—19,4091 in 17K34KJiang377
ES Spain—4,9701 in 10K5KJiang40
FI Finland—5141 in 11K514—8
SE Sweden—4931 in 21K493—30
AR Argentina—4641 in 98K464—1
NO Norway—2101 in 26K210—7
HK Hong Kong#359———Jiang53

19,409 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jiāng is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Jiǎng, Jiàng, Jiang

  • Thai surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, China, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Jiang

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Kang Bûn-iā, b. 1910Jiang Qing, b. 1914Jiang Zemin, b. 1926David Chiang, b. 1947William Kong, b. 1953Jiang Wen, b. 1963Philip Keung, b. 1966Johnny Chiang, b. 1972Jiang Yiyan, b. 1983Elanne Kong, b. 1987
  • Kang Bûn-iāb. 1910TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese composer (1910–1983)
  • Jiang Qingb. 1914CNChinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)
  • Jiang Zeminb. 1926CNformer General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1926–2022)
  • David Chiangb. 1947CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and director
  • William Kongb. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese film producer
  • Jiang Wenb. 1963CNChinese actor, screenwriter, and director
  • Philip Keungb. 1966CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and film producer
  • Johnny Chiangb. 1972TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese politician
  • Jiang Yiyanb. 1983CNChinese actress and singer
  • Elanne Kongb. 1987CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, singer and model

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Jiāng mean, and where does it come from?
From Mandarin 蔣／蒋 (Jiǎng). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
In which country does Jiāng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Jiāng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jiang.
Where is Jiāng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jiāng is densest in Spain — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jiāng?
In the United States, the national register counted 19,409 people named Jiāng in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Jiāng compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Jiāng is the 359th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jiāng” — the 359th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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