Leung
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Cantonese
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/liʌŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 43(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 3.1K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.5K
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.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 457 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Cantonese.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leung 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #11 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 43 | 429 | Leung | 187 |
| US United States | — | 20,496 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Leung | 457 |
| CA Canada | #251 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Leung | 268 |
| AU Australia | #355 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 1 | Leung | 209 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Leung | 206 |
| SG Singapore | #594 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Leung | 101 |
| GY Guyana | — | 79 | 1 in 9.5K | 79 | — | 5 |
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; This page contains a database of Hong Konger surnames and first names categorized by frequency and gender, published by; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Leung is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Chinese variant of Liang.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from English
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Liang Qichaob. 1873CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
- Al Leongb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and stuntman
- CY Leungb. 1954CNChinese politician
- Tony Leung Ka-faib. 1958CNHong Kong actor (born 1958)
- Leong Kah Kit Alanb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameHong Kong politician
- Tony Leung Chiu-waib. 1962CNHong Kong actor and singer
- Ken Leungb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Gigi Leungb. 1976CNHong Kong actress and singer
- Liang Wenfengb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese businessman (born 1985)
- Katie Leungb. 1987GBScottish actress
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,815 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 79 | #546 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Leung mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Cantonese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Leung?
- A machine transcription gives /liʌŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Leung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Leung in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leung.
- How common is the name Leung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,496 people named Leung in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Leung compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Leung is the 11th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leung?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leungThe 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, “Leung” — the 11th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.