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Surname Ng

吳 · 伍 · 黃

Ng is a Chinese surname spelling for 吳 or 伍 (Cantonese, Hakka) and 黃 (Hokkien, Teochew); its meaning depends on the family's character.

Characters for the surname Ng

The spelling Ng is common in Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 吳

    the ancient state of Wu; a family name

    Cantonese ng4 / Hakka ǹg / Mandarin wú

  • 伍

    a squad of five soldiers; a family name

    Cantonese ng5 / Hakka ńg / Mandarin wǔ

  • 黃

    yellow; a family name

    Hokkien n̂g / Teochew ng5 / Mandarin huáng

吳 all spellings of wú伍 all spellings of wǔ黃 all spellings of huáng

Possible characters for Ng

Ng 吳 wú · Cantonese · Hakka 伍 wǔ · Cantonese · Hakka 黃 huáng · Hokkien · Teochew
The spelling Ng can stand for 3 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
吳wú · Cantonese · Hakka
伍wǔ · Cantonese · Hakka
黃huáng · Hokkien · Teochew

Other spellings of the same character

  • Goh 吳Hokkien, Teochew
  • Go 吳 伍Hokkien
  • Gho 吳Hokkien, Teochew
  • Wong 黃Cantonese, Hakka
  • Ooi 黃Hokkien
  • Wee 黃Hokkien
  • Huang 黃Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Bong 黃Hakka, Cantonese

About the surname Ng

Ng is a Chinese surname spelling common in Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew romanization. In Cantonese (ng4, ng5) and Hakka (ǹg, ńg) it stands for 吳 or 伍, while in Hokkien (n̂g) and Teochew (ng5) the same spelling is used for 黃, which is spelled Wong in Cantonese and Hakka. The meaning depends on the character a family uses. According to JPN, the surname peaked in the 1940s with 1,691 baby girls.

Ng in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 1,580 · 9.3% Girl: 1,691 · 9%
1950s
Boy: 642 · 7.1%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ng as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. In these records the name JPN publishes is often the surname. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 吳 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 伍 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 黃 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 吳 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. MDBG: 伍 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. MDBG: 黃 · mdbg.net · meaning

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