Wong
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wong is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 11th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: synonym of orang (“person”).
- HKHong Kong1 in 44◐
- SGSingapore1 in 254
- MYMalaysia1 in 347
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈119K ●
- #779 ●
- Sources
- 529 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 14 countries
of 21M surnames
1.4M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
synonym of orang (“person”)
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #11 | 158,399 | 133K rec. | — | 2.4K | Wong | 187 |
| US United States | #232 | 111,371 | 962K rec. | 1 in 3K | 112K | Wong | 529 |
| AU Australia | #52 | 93,684 | 85K rec. | — | — | Wong | 273 |
| CA Canada | #39 | 71,581 | 66K rec. | — | — | Wong | 253 |
| HK Hong Kong | #1 | 66,323 | 65K rec. | — | 1K | Wong | 196 |
| GB United Kingdom | #451 | 45,023 | 37K rec. | — | — | Wong | 227 |
| SG Singapore | #4 | 37,966 | 35K rec. | — | — | Wong | 217 |
| PH Philippines | #754 | 19,284 | 16K rec. | — | — | Wong | 127 |
| CN China | #720 | 13,350 | 5.7K rec. | — | — | Wong | 149 |
| NL Netherlands | #168 | 2,476 | 7.2K rec. | 1 in 7K | 2.5K | Wong | 114 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,044△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 4.9K | 1K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 833 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 60K | 833 | — | 82 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.5M67%
- Chinese168K7%
- Spanish125K6%
- Malay116K5%
- 45K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,511,287 | 67% |
| Chinese | 167,620 | 7% |
| Spanish | 125,462 | 6% |
| Malay | 116,067 | 5% |
| 45,359 | 2% |
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●
Wong 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 English, A field or other piece of land.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, a surname from Cantonese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a different form of Wang or Huang.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In cdo, to injure, to abuse, to op- press; wrong, oppression, ill-usage ； xi gnidi^e, resent- m e n t ; to inn>iicatcs t<> charge unju.stly : '〜 h an g \ ^ivong or J^:ang /ivoi g, to 1 bear a grudge, t.o clierisli resent- j nient. ； ('0'、【""（"">"."7 or {wong \ hvon(i (coll. ,y:vng 'kong), to ac- I case' falsely; ''\ivong JcHeng, in- ！ jury, wrong, sudden evil, mishap
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1913 | 1 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1915 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1919 | 3 |
| 1920 | 3 |
| 1921 | 6 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 8 |
| 1925 | 9 |
| 1926 | 4 |
| 1927 | 9 |
| 1928 | 9 |
| 1929 | 13 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1931 | 15 |
| 1932 | 12 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1934 | 10 |
| 1935 | 9 |
| 1936 | 7 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1939 | 11 |
| 1940 | 9 |
| 1941 | 4 |
| 1942 | 9 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1944 | 11 |
| 1945 | 10 |
| 1946 | 7 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 9 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 12 |
| 1952 | 13 |
| 1953 | 15 |
| 1954 | 21 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 29 |
| 1957 | 22 |
| 1958 | 29 |
| 1959 | 34 |
| 1960 | 31 |
| 1961 | 41 |
| 1962 | 29 |
| 1963 | 24 |
| 1964 | 29 |
| 1965 | 37 |
| 1966 | 37 |
| 1967 | 31 |
| 1968 | 20 |
| 1969 | 31 |
| 1970 | 25 |
| 1971 | 24 |
| 1972 | 22 |
| 1973 | 22 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 23 |
| 1976 | 32 |
| 1977 | 36 |
| 1978 | 34 |
| 1979 | 36 |
| 1980 | 29 |
| 1981 | 37 |
| 1982 | 46 |
| 1983 | 37 |
| 1984 | 42 |
| 1985 | 47 |
| 1986 | 60 |
| 1987 | 39 |
| 1988 | 42 |
| 1989 | 32 |
| 1990 | 38 |
| 1991 | 35 |
| 1992 | 31 |
| 1993 | 44 |
| 1994 | 41 |
| 1995 | 46 |
| 1996 | 25 |
| 1997 | 26 |
| 1998 | 37 |
| 1999 | 30 |
| 2000 | 41 |
| 2001 | 31 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 55 |
| 2004 | 38 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 40 |
| 2007 | 49 |
| 2008 | 32 |
| 2009 | 31 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 43 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2014 | 39 |
| 2015 | 33 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 25 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 24 |
| 2021 | 24 |
| 2022 | 25 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 23 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 112 years between 1911–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Wang Jingweib. 1883CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician, leader of Wang Jingwei regime (1883-1944)
- Huang Xianfanb. 1899CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
- Anna May Wongb. 1905USChinese American actress (1905-1961)
- Vera Wangb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican fashion designer (born 1939)
- Jensen Huangb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
- Benedict Wongb. 1971GBBritish actor
- Wang Leehomb. 1976USnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer, songwriter, actor
- Ali Wongb. 1982USAmerican comedian and actress (born 1982)
- Jimmy Wongb. 1986USAmerican actor and singer
- Tank Manb. 2000CNnot in their usual nameanonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
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 55 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 220 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wong?
- We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Wong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Wong have the most bearers?
- Wong is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled wong.
- How common is Wong compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Wong is the 11th most common surname of 241,605 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Wong mean?
- Recorded meaning: synonym of orang (“person”)
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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, “Wong” — the 11th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.