Ng

At the 2020 census, 32,518 Americans bore the surname Ng — 1,060th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,192.

By the numbers

People: 32,518
Rank: 1,060th
How common: 1 in 9,192
Per 100,000: 10.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From various Chinese surnames, including:.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Ng

Andrew Y. Ng (born 1976)American artificial intelligence researcher
Celeste Ng (born 1980)American novelist
Nigel Ng (born 1991)Malaysian comedian
Philip Ng (born 1977)American actor based in Hong Kong
Carrie Ng (born 1963)Hong Kong actress
Sandra Ng (born 1965)Hong Kong actress, singer
Charles Ng (born 1960)Hong Kong serial killer in United States detainment
Francis Ng (born 1961)Hong Kong actor and film director

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

Surnames like Ng

Nguyen
Ngo

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.