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Surname Ong

王 · 汪

Ong is the Hokkien spelling of the Chinese surname 王 (king) and also of 汪.

Characters for the surname Ong

The spelling Ong is common in Hokkien romanization.

  • 王

    king; surname

    Hokkien ông / Mandarin wáng

    attested

  • 汪

    vast and deep (of water); surname

    Hokkien ong / Mandarin wāng

王 all spellings of wáng汪 all spellings of wāng

Possible characters for Ong

Ong 王 wáng · Hokkien 汪 wāng · Hokkien
The spelling Ong can stand for 2 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
王wáng · Hokkien
汪wāng · Hokkien

Other spellings of the same character

  • Wong 王Cantonese, Hakka
  • Heng 王Teochew, Hokkien

About the surname Ong

Ong is the Hokkien spelling of the surname 王 (ông), meaning king. The same spelling is also used for the surname 汪 (Hokkien ong), meaning vast and deep, of water. The meaning depends on which character a family uses. In Cantonese 王 is written Wong and in Mandarin Wang. According to JPN, the surname peaked in the 1940s with 691 baby boys.

Ong in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 691 · 4.1%
1950s
not in the top 10
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 Ong 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: 王 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 汪 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. MDBG: 王 · mdbg.net · meaning
  4. MDBG: 汪 · mdbg.net · meaning

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