Names of Hong Kong HK

The names that most distinguish Hong Kong from the rest of the world are Wong, Chan and Chun; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Hong Kong are Chun and Wong.

Written in Chinese, English.

Population
7.2M
Official registers
6
Name forms recorded
9.8K
BBuilt from 6 official registers, 9,819 name forms in our corpus, 17 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Hong Kong are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Hong Kong included.

How names work in Hong Kong

6 naming traditions are in use in Hong Kong, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Hong Kong

Characteristic of Hong Kong

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Hong Kong holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

ChunMingKinChingYinYingLingYanYiuHungMeiPingWaiHoiTing生LamKaiManWinnieTungWanHinHiuMaggieShukLunShanYungMandyLeeJasonChanTsuenSuetShunTaiSamKitPikTatSukQueenieMiuIvyKamHuiSuiSangSzeKittyShuPui
Sized by how much of the difference between Hong Kong's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Hong Kong are written in Latin (96%) and Han (4%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Wongsurname●
Chansurname●
Leungsurname●
Cheungsurname●
Parksurname●
The best-attested names in Hong Kong, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Hong Kong?
No — 6 are described on this page (Chinese, Cantonese and Hong Kong, Hokkien and Min, Wu and Shanghainese, Zhuang, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Hong Kong”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/HK (data snapshot 2026-09-12).