Weng
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Weng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from wenig 'small, slight, little'.
- USUnited States1 in 71K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 19K
- DKDenmark1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
4,680 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from wenig 'small, slight, little'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weng 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.
4,680 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Weng 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 Chinese, nonstandard spelling of wēng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of winge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-cfr, wine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In och, a bellied jar with small opening; tub, vat; swollen
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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)
- Tagawa Matsub. 1602JPnot in their usual nameTaiwanese Hero (1602–1647)
- Weng Wenhaob. 1889CNChinese geologist and politician
- Will Wengb. 1907USAmerican crossword puzzle constructor (1907–1993)
- Judy Onggb. 1950TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-Japanese singer and actress (born 1950)
- Yvonne Yungb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer
- Weng Fanb. 1976CNwife of Chen-Ning Yang
- Heidi Wengb. 1991NONorwegian cross-country skier and fell runner (1991-)
- Tiril Udnes Wengb. 1996NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Lotta Udnes Wengb. 1996NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Jude WengUSTaiwanese-born American television writer, producer, and director
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 149 | #34,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #34,261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 34 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Weng mean, and where does it come from?
- from wenig 'small, slight, little' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Weng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Weng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weng.
- Where is Weng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Weng is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Weng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,680 people named Weng in 2010, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Weng compared with other names?
- In Taiwan, Weng is the 255th most common surname of 18,531 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wengThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (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, “Weng” — the 255th most common surname in Taiwan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.