Kwong
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kwong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Splendid.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- NLNetherlands1 in 864K
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)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
5,637 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Splendid
Sources 1
- A Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kwong 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 | — | 5,637 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Kwong | 53 |
| BR Brazil | — | 48 | 1 in 4.4M | 48 | Kwong | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 20 | 1 in 864K | 49 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | #646 | — | — | — | Kwong | 27 |
5,637 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Kwong is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wuu, Bladder
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Streaks
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Smooth
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Flash
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Xight
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai 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
- Larry Kwongb. 1923CACanadian ice hockey player (1923–2018)
- Maylia Fongb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Norman Kwongb. 1929CACanadian football player and politician (1929-2016)
- Kwong Siu-hingb. 1929CNHong Kong businessman
- Paul Kwongb. 1952CNArchbishop of Hong Kong
- Wong Heb. 1967CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor-singer
- David Kwongb. 1980USAmerican magician
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #5,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,246 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #107,840 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 20 | #49,375 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #46,277 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,779 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| 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
- What does the name Kwong mean, and where does it come from?
- Splendid Recorded by A Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect.
- In which country does Kwong have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Kwong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kwong.
- Where is Kwong most common?
- Kwong is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kwong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,637 people named Kwong in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Kwong compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Kwong is the 646th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kwongThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kwong” — the 646th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.