Zeng

At the 2020 census, 12,313 Americans bore the surname Zeng — 2,852nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,300.

By the numbers

People: 12,313
Rank: 2,852nd
How common: 1 in 24,300
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

From the pinyin romanization of cmn.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.0%
White, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Zeng

Zeng Guofan (1811–1872)Chinese politician and military commander
Zeng Cheng (born 1987)Chinese footballer
Zeng Gong (1019–1083)Chinese historian, poet, politician, and writer
Zeng Qinghong (born 1939)former Politburo Standing Committee member of the Chinese Communist Party
Zeng Guoqiang (born 1965)Chinese weightlifter
Zhiying Zeng (born 1966)Chinese-Chilean table tennis player
Zeng Liansong (1917–1999)economist, designer of the flag of the People's Republic of China
Zeng Peiyan (born 1938)former Vice Premier of China

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

Surnames like Zeng

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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.