Zhōng
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zhōng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 67K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 36K
- NONorway1 in 58K
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
- 302 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
4,991 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zhong in US United States, HK Hong Kong.
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)
系 自 姬 姓 (一 说 祁 姓 ) . APPIN ZA ERR 板 之 后 。 晋 公 族 逝 敖 生 荀 林 父 , 晋 文 公 作 三 行 以 御 狄 , 苟 林 父 将 中 行 (统率 中 军 ) , 谓 之 中 行 桓 子 , 其 后 以 官 名 为 氏 , 见 《风俗 通 》(2,7,17) 。
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhōng 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.
4,991 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
- Arthur Chungb. 1918GYnot in their usual nameFirst President of Guyana, Senior Magistrate, Sworn Land Surveyor (1918–2008)
- Zhong Nanshanb. 1936CNChinese pulmonologist
- Kenny Beeb. 1953CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer and actor
- Zhong Shanshanb. 1954CNChinese Billionaire
- Andrea Jungb. 1959USnot in their usual namepresident and CEO of Avon Products
- Cherie Chungb. 1960CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Basuki Tjahaja Purnamab. 1966IDnot in their usual nameFormer Governor of Jakarta, Vice Governor of Jakarta
- Christy Chungb. 1970CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Gillian Chungb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer
- Linda Chungb. 1984CAnot in their usual nameChinese-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter
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
- In which country does Zhōng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Zhōng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhong.
- Where is Zhōng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhōng is densest in Finland — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhōng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,991 people named Zhōng in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhōng compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Zhōng is the 601st most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zhōng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zh%C5%8DngThe 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, “Zhōng” — the 601st most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.