Meng

Meng is the 4,651st most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,390 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,400.

By the numbers

People: 7,390
Rank: 4,651st
How common: 1 in 40,400
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

From non-English surnames:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Meng described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 71.9%
White, not Hispanic 23.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Meng

Meng Haoran (690–740)poet from the Tang Dynasty
Meng Wanzhou (born 1972)Chinese business executive
Chen Meng (born 1994)Chinese table tennis player
Meng Tian (250 BC–209 BC)Chinese inventor and military general from the state of Qin during the Warring States period
Wang Meng (born 1985)short track speed skater
Meng Hongwei (born 1953)Chinese politician
Lü Meng (178–219)General serving under warlord Sun Quan
Meng Jia (born 1989)Chinese singer, rapper and actress

People named Meng with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Meng

Also a first name

Meng has been given to 568 American babies as a first name since 1979, peaking in 1993. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.