Giang
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Giang is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Maclurochloa.
- VNVietnam1 in 247◐
- USUnited States1 in 258K
- ISIceland1 in 29K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.6K ●
- Sources
- 209 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 10 countries
209K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Maclurochloa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #43 | 344,519 | 194K rec. | — | listed | Giang | 209 |
| US United States | — | 1,290 | 14K rec. | 1 in 258K | 3.5K | Giang | 131 |
| CA Canada | — | 369 | 766 rec. | — | — | Giang | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 265 | 489 rec. | — | — | Giang | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 159△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 64K | 159 | — | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | 65 | 102 rec. | — | — | Giang | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 63 | 103 rec. | — | — | Giang | 6 |
| RU Russia | — | 53 | 74 rec. | — | — | Giang | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 36△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 155K | 136 | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 32 | 44 rec. | — | 40 | Giang | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 30 | 42 rec. | — | — | Giang | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | 28 | 45 rec. | — | — | Giang | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese351K91%
- English16K4%
- 3.7K1%
- Spanish2K1%
- German1.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 350,545 | 91% |
| English | 15,625 | 4% |
| 3,671 | 1% | |
| Spanish | 2,044 | 1% |
| German | 1,255 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Giang is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; tên chúa Trịnh, cùng bộ mộc.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In cdo, space between the eyelids and lashes, a displeased look
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Malay, itch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, AT aT to walk, to go, to travel, to act
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 18 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Song Jianb. 150not in their usual nameEastern Han/Three Kingdoms military official
- Trịnh Giangb. 1711VNSixth Trịnh lord
- Feng Zuojianb. 1937CNnot in their usual nameChinese zoologist
- Gao Jianb. 1952CNnot in their usual nameChinese diplomat
- Li Ruojianb. 1956CNnot in their usual nameChinese sociologist
- Lưu Hương Giangb. 1983VNVietnamese singer
- Giang Nguyenb. 1985AUAustralian chess master
- Hương Giangb. 1991VNVietnamese singer, model, actress and television personality (born 1991)
- Tran Nam Giangb. 2009HUHungarian chess player
- Chien-Hsiun ChenUSnot in their usual namePh.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook 1998
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●
Attested in 39 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #6,422 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #6,422 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 159 | #6,194 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 136 | #4,465 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 117 | #6,377 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 74 | #13,920 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 62 | #6,832 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 53 | #26,499 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 44 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Giang?
- We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Giang (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Giang have the most bearers?
- Giang is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled giang.
- How common is Giang compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Giang is the 43rd most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Giang a male or female name?
- Giang 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.
- What does the name Giang mean?
- Recorded meaning: Maclurochloa
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Giang” — the 43rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.