Keong
surname · Latin script
Meaning: snail (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/kəoŋ/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated · uncertain
Keong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Keong is also written คลัง in Thai.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 8.1K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 120Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keong itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Keong in other scripts: Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Keong
- Malay:/kəoŋ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)snail
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Keong is found
(measured from records)Keong 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #105 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Keong | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Keong | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,952as Klang | 1 in 5.2K | 2K | — | 10 |
| SG Singapore | #286 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Keong | 76 |
| US United States | — | 612as Klang | 1 in 544K | 653 | Keong | 88 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Keong | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 105as Klang | 1 in 53K | 105 | — | 1 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)- David Chiangb. 1947CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and director
- Jiang Wenb. 1963CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor, screenwriter, and director
- Philip Keungb. 1966CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and film producer
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keong mean, and where does it come from?
- snail Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Keong?
- In Malay /kəoŋ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Keong?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Keong in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keong. After it come Indonesia, Sweden, Singapore and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Keong?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,952 people named Klang, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Keong compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Keong is the 105th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Keong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keongThe 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, “Keong” — the 105th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.