Hang

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hang is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a comparatively rare surname in China, of later origin than most of the more common surnames.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 200◐
  • USUnited States1 in 54K
  • MOMacao1 in 9.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.8K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
181 ●

233K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 15K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hằng in RU Russia, MO Macao.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a comparatively rare surname in China, of later origin than most of the more common surnames. It was not until the Song dynasty (9601279) that the current form of the character for the name became established, appearing in Hunan province after branching from a surname written with a similar character.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hang is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#39398,043209K rec.—listedHang181
US United States—6,20419K rec.1 in 54K7KHang135
CA Canada—612863 rec.—1Hang33
GB United Kingdom—558871 rec.——Hang33
HK Hong Kong#437400527 rec.——Hang17
SE Sweden—274△22 rec.1 in 37K274—8
SG Singapore—159265 rec.——Hang15
CN China—159218 rec.——Hang20
MY Malaysia—152248 rec.——Hang16
ES Spain—126△51 rec.1 in 397K127—10
KH Cambodia—101137 rec.——Hang44
NL Netherlands—72130 rec.—17Hang11

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese257K64%
  • English59K15%
  • Chinese19K5%
  • 18K4%
  • Spanish7.1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese256,79164%
English58,90315%
Chinese18,5455%
17,8944%
Spanish7,1352%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hang is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name113K records spelled Hang23 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Haeng, Hằng, Hăng, Häng, Háñg

  • a separate given name77K records spelled Hang30 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Hàng, Hằng, Hãng, Hāñg, Hằñg

  • a separate given name26K records spelled Hang9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Hằng, Hãng, Hăng, Häng, Háng

  • Malay given name11K records spelled Hang5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Indonesia, Hong Kong

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Hằng, Hàng, Hăng

  • Korean given name7.0K records spelled Hang13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong

    Also written 항재, 행호, 행의, Haengho, Hằng

  • French given name6.2K records spelled Hang5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hằng, Häng, Hàng

  • Portuguese given name5.7K records spelled Hang7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, China, United Kingdom

    Also written Hằng, Hăng, Hảng, Hãng, Hẫng

67 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses●

Hang 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.

  • variant of Hank, a pet form of Johann or Heinrich.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, To be or remain suspended.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Vietnamese, cave

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, from Hang, 'slope' or hill side

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, Variante von Hank; 142 Träger; patronymisch zu einer Kurzform von Johannes

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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●

02040602000200520102015202049 · 2019

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Hang in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199919
200020
200121
200222
200322
200426
200526
200631
200736
200837
200938
201039
201139
201243
201342
201445
201547
201645
201745
201846
201949
202048

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●

500100015002000Choe Hang, b. 972Wang Xing, b. 1331Hang Tuah, b. 1444Tian Han, b. 1898Kim Hang-kyung, b. 1940Liu Han, b. 1965Yin Hang, b. 1988
  • Choe Hangb. 972Korean politician (?–1024)
  • Wang Xingb. 1331not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 28689
  • Hang Tuahb. 1444MYMalay descent warrior from Bintan island
  • Tian Hanb. 1898CNnot in their usual nameChinese playwright, screenwriter, songwriter (1898-1968)
  • Kim Hang-kyungb. 1940KRSouth Korean diplomat, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Consul General to New York
  • Liu Hanb. 1965CNnot in their usual nameChinese mining tycoon, executed in February 2015
  • Yin Hangb. 1988CNChinese Go player
  • Li Hannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 92894
  • Liu Xingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 219343
  • Jin Xingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 208807

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 56 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Hang
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207K#4,884
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.9K#5,101
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.2K#2,904
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.4K#5,865
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.8K#5,371
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#2,904
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—578—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—274#4,156
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—228#3,209
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—156#5,706
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—140#11,135
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—127#6,025

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 197 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hang?
We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Hang (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Hang have the most bearers?
Hang is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled hang.
How common is Hang compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Hang is the 39th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Hang a male or female name?
Hang is a female 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.
What does the name Hang mean?
Recorded meaning: a comparatively rare surname in China, of later origin than most of the more common surnames.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Hang” — the 39th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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