KWang

given name · English · Latin script

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

KWang is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Korea. In North Korea it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Korean, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 1.8K◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 9.7K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 14K

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

≈2.3K ●

across 5 countries

Sources
208 ●

90K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 155K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gwang in ZA South Africa.

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●

An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where KWang is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea—7,2943.7K rec.——KWang142
MY Malaysia—4,6834.9K rec.——KWang52
US United States—2,15368K rec.1 in 155K2.2KKWang208
GB United Kingdom—1,9762.1K rec.——KWang31
AU Australia—1,7511.9K rec.——KWang56
CA Canada—1,5981.7K rec.——KWang39
SG Singapore#4791,1141.6K rec.——KWang77
AR Argentina—836727 rec.——KWang15
KP North Korea#51345235 rec.—1KWang39
CN China—33674 rec.——KWang17
IT Italy—262291 rec.——KWang4
DE Germany—210207 rec.——KWang41

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

Languages●

  • English44K42%
  • Korean37K36%
  • Spanish3.9K4%
  • Malay3.9K4%
  • 3.2K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English43,80542%
Korean37,24436%
Spanish3,9144%
Malay3,8534%
3,1713%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name3.9K records spelled KWang2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Canada

    Also written Kwāng

  • French given name645 records spelled KWang3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Singapore, Malaysia

    Also written Kwãng

55 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●

KWang is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In wuu, Eage

    as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai 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.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Choe Kwang, b. 1918Kwang-Young Lee, b. 1946Jang Gwang, b. 1952Gwang Ha Kim, b. 1969

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 22 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting KWang
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#5,622
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020856#5,622
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000229#77,742
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020221#89,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010206#89,753
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—55#12,828
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—50#29,090
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202247—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—37#69,533
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—28#4,708
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202628#5,085
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#20,221

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name KWang?
We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear KWang (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does KWang have the most bearers?
KWang is most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is most often spelled KWang.
How common is KWang compared with other names?
In North Korea, KWang is the 51st most common given name of 2,373 given names recorded there.
Is KWang a male or female name?
KWang 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.
What does the name KWang mean?
Recorded meaning: An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.
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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, “KWang” — the 51st most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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