Kèng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kèng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 2. Korean: variant of Kang.
- USUnited States1 in 336K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 364K
- NLNetherlands1 in 617K
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
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336K (inferred from the name graph)
989 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Keng in US United States, BR Brazil, PT Portugal.
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)
2. Korean: variant of Kang.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kèng 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 | 989 | 1 in 336K | 901 | KenG | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 28 | 1 in 617K | 20 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 6 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 39 | KenG | 24 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | listed | KenG | 11 |
989 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling keng. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Jing Huib. 601not in their usual nameChancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang
- Jing Xiangb. 801not in their usual nameChinese chancellor
- Jing Yanb. 1255not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 109318
- Jing Zhengshub. 1945CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Jing Yidanb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese broadcaster
- Jing Boranb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and singer
- Jing Yalib. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese female cyclist
- Jing Baolinnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 147513
- Jing Shaoxiangnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 147514
- Jing Pinnot in their usual nameWestern Wei person CBDB=12837
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kèng mean, and where does it come from?
- 2. Korean: variant of Kang. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Kèng a male or female name?
- Kèng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kèng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 989 people named Kèng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled KenG.
- Where is Kèng most common?
- Kèng is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 336 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kèng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 989 people named Kèng in 2020, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kèng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A8ngThe 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, “Kèng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.