Šang

given name · Latin script

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

Šang is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Aberdeens; Fife. nickname from Middle English and Older Scots sang(e), song(e) ‘song’, used for a singer. Compare Sanger , Sangster .

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 37K
  • DKDenmark1 in 140K

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)

11,561 people, 2020

Sources
120 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sang in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Aberdeens; Fife. nickname from Middle English and Older Scots sang(e), song(e) ‘song’, used for a singer. Compare Sanger , Sangster . Further information: in Scotland, at first largely confined to Kincardine O’Neil (Aberdeens).

Sources 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šang 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 Šang is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States11,5611 in 29K8.6KSang120
SE Sweden2771 in 37K277—7
BR Brazil1481 in 1.4M148—1
NL Netherlands1101 in 157K81Sang17
PL Poland551 in 696K50——
DK Denmark421 in 140K34——
FI Finland331 in 169K94—6

11,561 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šang is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sang, Saeng, Sáng, Säng, Sång

  • Georgian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Sang

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Jiang Ziya, b. 1128Li Shang, b. 1423Cai Shangsi, b. 1905
  • Jiang Ziyab. 1128CNnot in their usual namemilitary strategist of King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou
  • Li Shangb. 1423not in their usual namepolitician
  • Cai Shangsib. 1905CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
  • Liu Shangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 304507
  • Wang Shangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 305349
  • Wang Shangnot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 39437
  • Chen Shangnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 163496
  • Wang Shangnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 149318
  • Zhang Shangnot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 59640
  • Zhang Shangnot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 59643

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Šang 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

What does the name Šang mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Aberdeens; Fife. nickname from Middle English and Older Scots sang(e), song(e) ‘song’, used for a singer. Compare Sanger , Sangster . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Šang a male or female name?
Šang 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 Šang have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Šang, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sang.
Where is Šang most common?
Šang is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Šang?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,561 people named Šang in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.

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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, “Šang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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