Wang
Wang is the 151st most common surname in the United States, shared by 169,987 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,758.
By the numbers
- People
- 169,987
- Rank
- 151st
- How common
- 1 in 1,758
- Per 100,000
- 56.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Chinese
From various romanizations of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Wang described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Wang
- Wang Wei (699–761)Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
- Wang Yi (born 1953)Chinese diplomat leader, Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office since 2023
- Wang Mang (44 BC–23)Han dynasty official and founding Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (c.45 BC-23 AD)
- Wang Yangming (1472–1529)Chinese philosopher and general
- Wang Anshi (1021–1086)Song Dynasty chancellor and poet
- Wang Jingwei (1883–1944)Chinese politician, leader of Wang Jingwei regime
- Vera Wang (born 1949)American fashion designer
- Wang Chong (27–97)1st century Chinese meteorologist, astronomer, and philosopher
People named Wang with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Wang
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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.