Leung
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Leung is a surname, most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is the 8th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A surname from Cantonese.
- HKHong Kong1 in 110◐
- CACanada1 in 3.8K
- AUAustralia1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈22K ●
- Sources
- 398 ●
- 1 in 9.5K ◐
across 14 countries
258K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
A surname from Cantonese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #8 | 26,690 | 25K rec. | — | 429 | Leung | 177 |
| AU Australia | #360 | 21,351 | 20K rec. | — | 1 | Leung | 195 |
| US United States | — | 20,496 | 173K rec. | 1 in 16K | 21K | Leung | 398 |
| CA Canada | #272 | 19,595 | 18K rec. | — | — | Leung | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9,158 | 8.4K rec. | — | — | Leung | 156 |
| CN China | — | 3,035 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Leung | 96 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,058 | 893 rec. | — | — | Leung | 55 |
| SG Singapore | #638 | 996 | 909 rec. | — | — | Leung | 94 |
| DE Germany | — | 786 | 811 rec. | — | — | Leung | 64 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 647 | 704 rec. | — | — | Leung | 41 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 425 | 2K rec. | 1 in 41K | 425 | Leung | 48 |
| EG Egypt | — | 224 | 228 rec. | — | — | Leung | 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●
- English247K65%
- Chinese71K18%
- Spanish11K3%
- 7.6K2%
- Hindi3.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 247,071 | 65% |
| Chinese | 70,546 | 18% |
| Spanish | 11,346 | 3% |
| 7,583 | 2% | |
| Hindi | 3,639 | 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●
Leung is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Chinese variant of Liang.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from English
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Liang Qichaob. 1873CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician, activist and journalist (1873–1929)
- Al Leongb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and stuntman
- CY Leungb. 1954CNChinese politician
- Tony Leung Ka-faib. 1958CNHong Kong actor (born 1958)
- Leong Kah Kit Alanb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameHong Kong politician
- Tony Leung Chiu-waib. 1962CNHong Kong actor and singer
- Ken Leungb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Gigi Leungb. 1976CNHong Kong actress and singer
- Liang Wenfengb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese businessman (born 1985)
- Katie Leungb. 1987GBScottish actress
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 35 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 80 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Leung?
- We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Leung (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Leung have the most bearers?
- Leung is most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is most often spelled leung.
- How common is Leung compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Leung is the 8th most common surname of 7,703 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Leung mean?
- Recorded meaning: A surname from Cantonese.
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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.
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, “Leung” — the 8th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.