Sawiang
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sawiang is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 260as 성(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9.6Kas Seong
- USUnited States1 in 10Kas Cheng
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 Sawiang 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.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 260 (inferred from the name graph)
199,160 named 성, 2015
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, as 성
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Seong in US United States, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and 성 in KR South Korea.
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)Sawiang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #36 | 199,160as 성 | 1 in 260 | 199K | 성 | 197 |
| US United States | — | 32,982as Cheng | 1 in 10K | 39K | Seong | 205 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Seong | 82 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,566as Cheng | 1 in 19K | 2.6K | — | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Seong | 34 |
| FI Finland | — | 304as Cheng | 1 in 18K | 304 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 262as Cheng | 1 in 19K | 262 | — | — |
199,160 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sawiang a male or female name?
- Sawiang is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sawiang have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 199 thousand people named 성, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sawiang most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sawiang itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is South Korea's: the national register counts about 1 in 260 people named 성.
- How common is the name Sawiang?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 199,160 people named 성 in 2015, about 1 in 260 residents.
- How common is Sawiang compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sawiang is the 36th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sawiang?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawiangThe 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, “Sawiang” — the 36th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.