Kuang
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Chinese: nonstandard spelling of kuāng
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuæŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 17K
- CACanada≈1 in 62K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Kuang Chengzi, a legendary figure from the time of the legendary emperor Huang Di (26972595 BC).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kuang is read(measured from records)
Kuang is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kuang in English.
- Chinese23%
nonstandard spelling of kuāng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Malay6.4%
A pheasant.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Kuang | 111 |
| US United States | — | 3,767 | 1 in 88K | 5.7K | Kuang | 258 |
| TW Taiwan | #615 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kuang | 95 |
| MY Malaysia | #655 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kuang | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Kuang | 96 |
| HK Hong Kong | #621 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kuang | 26 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Kuang | 44 |
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. 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)
Kuang is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from Kuang Chengzi, a legendary figure from the time of the legendary emperor Huang Di (26972595 BC).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a city called Kuang that existed in the state of Lu during the Zhou dynasty (1122-221 BC).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In cdo, a ring of iron (€) a weight of six hair in knot, a slave girl, (a-kuang), the heavy sound of gongs when struck
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a circle, a ball, a heavenly body, to turn round, to surround, to look alarmed (#)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Hiram Fongb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1906–2004)
- Benson Fongb. 1916USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1916-1987)
- March Fong Eub. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Maylia Fongb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Kwong Siu-hingb. 1929CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong businessman
- Paul Kwongb. 1952CNnot in their usual nameArchbishop of Hong Kong
- Matt Fongb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Wong Heb. 1967CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor-singer
- R.F. Kuangb. 1996USChinese-American writer
- Kwong Chi-LeungCNnot in their usual nameChinese film editor
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,868 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,473 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Kuang come from?
- from Kuang Chengzi, a legendary figure from the time of the legendary emperor Huang Di (26972595 BC). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuang?
- A machine transcription gives /kuæŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kuang mean?
- In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of kuāng
- In which country does Kuang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 216 thousand people named Kuang in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuang.
- How common is the name Kuang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,767 people named Kuang in 2010, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuang compared with other names?
- In Taiwan, Kuang is the 615th most common surname of 18,531 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kuang?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuangThe 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, “Kuang” — the 615th most common surname in Taiwan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.