Gang
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gang is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Chinese, recorded as nonstandard spelling of gāng.
- CNChina≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 15Kas King
- THThailand≈1 in 46Kas กิ่ง
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gang itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Khing in MY Malaysia, MM Myanmar (Burma), กิ่ง in TH Thailand, Gong in HK Hong Kong and King in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OHG gangan 'to go'; some forms may also be from related stems or nicknames
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gang is read(measured from records)
Gang is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Chinese34%
nonstandard spelling of gāng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English27%
To go; walk; proceed.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gang in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gang counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Gang | 156 |
| US United States | — | 22,343as King | 1 in 15K | 465K | Gang | 339 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #181 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | KHiNG | 16 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | #15,987 | กิ่ง | 118 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | KHiNG | 37 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | King | 21 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Gong | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 107 | 1 in 467K | 892 | — | 19 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gang is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from OHG gangan 'to go'; some forms may also be from related stems or nicknames
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 72.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
‘Strength’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, corridor, aisle, course
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Prince Yi Kangb. 1877KRnot in their usual nameKorean prince (1877-1955)
- Ching Kongb. 1924CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director
- Wang Gangb. 1942CNChinese politician
- Fan Gangb. 1953CNeconomist
- Gang Tianb. 1958CNChinese mathematician
- Liu Gangb. 1961CNChinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
- Qin Gangb. 1966CNformer Foreign Affairs Minister of China
- Han Kangb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Wang Gangb. 1989CNChinese footballer
- Song Kangb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,689 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 107 | #15,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #7,689 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92 | #7,848 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gang come from?
- from OHG gangan 'to go'; some forms may also be from related stems or nicknames Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Gang mean?
- In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of gāng
- Is Gang a male or female name?
- Gang is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 472 thousand people named Gang in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gang.
- How common is the name Gang?
- In Spain, the national register counted 107 people named Gang, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.
- How common is Gang compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Gang is the 181st most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gangThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gang” — the 181st most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.