Saengao

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saengao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 82nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • THThailand≈1 in 7.3Kas แซ่โง้ว(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 4.5Kas Ngo
  • USUnited States1 in 10Kas Ngo

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 Saengao itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

33,005 named Ngo, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway, as Ngo

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

แซ่โง้วThai(measured from records)
SaengowLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled แซ่โง้ว in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia and Ngo in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saengao 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.

Where Saengao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—33,005as Ngo1 in 10K39KNgo39
TH Thailand#82≈9,500 est.≈1 in 7.3K#86,081แซ่โง้ว89
ID Indonesia—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 185Klistedแซ่โง้ว1
NO Norway—1,206as Ngo1 in 4.5K1.2K—2
SE Sweden—581as Ngo1 in 18K581—2
FI Finland—383as Ngo1 in 15K383—2
DK Denmark—343as Ngo1 in 17K343——

33,005 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Saengao under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Saengao have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Ngo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Saengao most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Saengao itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Norway's: the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people named Ngo.
How common is the name Saengao?
In the United States, the national register counted 33,005 people named Ngo in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Saengao compared with other names?
In Thailand, Saengao is the 82nd most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Saengao” — the 82nd most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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