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Surname Wong

黃 · 王

Wong is the Cantonese and Hakka spelling of the Chinese surnames 黃 (yellow) and 王 (king).

Characters for the surname Wong

The spelling Wong is common in Cantonese and Hakka romanization.

  • 黃

    yellow; surname

    Cantonese wong4 / Hakka vòng / Mandarin huáng

    attested

  • 黄

    yellow; surname (simplified form)

    Cantonese wong4 / Hakka vòng / Mandarin huáng (simplified form of 黃)

    attested

  • 王

    king; surname

    Cantonese wong4 / Hakka vòng / Mandarin wáng

    attested

黃 all spellings of huáng王 all spellings of wáng

Possible characters for Wong

Wong 黃 huáng · Cantonese · Hakka 王 wáng · Cantonese · Hakka
The spelling Wong can stand for 2 characters. The spelling alone does not show which one a family uses.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
黃huáng · Cantonese · Hakka
王wáng · Cantonese · Hakka

Other spellings of the same character

  • Ooi 黃Hokkien
  • Wee 黃Hokkien
  • Huang 黃Mandarin (pinyin)
  • Bong 黃Hakka, Cantonese
  • Ng 黃Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew
  • Ong 王Hokkien
  • Heng 王Teochew, Hokkien

About the surname Wong

Wong is the spelling of two separate surnames, 黃 (yellow; simplified 黄) and 王 (king). Both characters are read wong4 in Cantonese and vòng in Hakka. The meaning depends on which character a family uses. In Hokkien, 黃 is written Ng or Ooi and 王 is written Ong. According to JPN, the surname peaked in the 1940s with 2,427 baby boys.

Wong in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 2,427 · 14.2% Girl: 2,283 · 12.1%
1950s
Boy: 1,222 · 13.6% Girl: 1,083 · 8.5%
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 Wong 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: 黃 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 王 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. MDBG: 黃 · mdbg.net · meaning
  4. MDBG: 王 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. MDBG: 黄 · mdbg.net · meaning

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