List of persons with the surname
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As a surname, Chong may refer to:
Chong is the 19th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans, with 23,100 bearers in the year 2000. [1] There were 10,740 Chongs found by the 2000 United States Census, ranking Chong 2,561st most common overall and 96th most common among Asians and Pacific Islanders. [2] Chong was also listed among the 200-most-common peculiarly Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario. [3]
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Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use, but the great proportion of Han Chinese people use only a relatively small number of these surnames; 19 surnames are used by around half of the Han Chinese people, while 100 surnames are used by around 87% of the population. A report in 2019 gives the most common Chinese surnames as Wang and Li, each shared by over 100 million people in China. The remaining eight of the top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou.
Zhang ( ) is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan, and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. Zhang is the pinyin romanization of the very common Chinese surname written 张 in simplified characters and 張 in traditional characters. It is spoken in the first tone: Zhāng. It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures, corresponding to the surname 'Archer' in English for example. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is romanized as "Chang", which is commonly used in Taiwan; "Cheung" is commonly used in Hong Kong as romanization.
Cheng can be a transcription of one of several Chinese surnames. Since the syllable Cheng represents different sounds in Hanyu pinyin and the Wade–Giles systems of Chinese romanization, some ambiguity will exist as to which sound is represented by the letters "Cheng" if the romanisation and tone is not known. Also within each system of romanisation, each syllable can represent one of several different characters, as with any Chinese syllable.
Chang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 常 (Cháng). It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.
Lei is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 雷 (Léi). It is the 69th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
Zhuang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 庄 in simplified character and 莊 in traditional character. It's usually romanized as "Chuang" in Taiwan based in Wade-Giles. It is spoken in the first tone: Zhuāng.
Jang, Chang and Zang are romanizations of the common Korean surname 장. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 1,021,107 people by this name in South Korea or 2.05% of the population.
Xiong is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 熊 (Xióng). It is 41st in the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 熊紀舒屈.
Le is a romanization of several rare East Asian surnames and a common Vietnamese surname.
Teoh is a romanised Chinese family name. It is a romanization of Teochew and Hokkien names, particularly simplified Chinese: 张; traditional Chinese:. It is also rendered as Tiu, Tio, Thio, and Tiew.
Chung is a surname whose bearers are generally people of Chinese or Korean descent. It is also a Vietnamese surname worn by people of Chinese descent but is very rare in Vietnam; the surname is known as Zhong in Mandarin Chinese, Jong (鍾/종), Jong (宗/종), and Jung (鄭/정) in Korean, and Chung in Vietnam, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Cheung is a Cantonese romanization of several Chinese surnames, including the one written as 張 in Traditional characters and 张 in Simplified characters, and the one written in both Traditional characters and Simplified characters as 章 (zoeng1). Sometimes, 蔣 is also spelled as Cheung instead of Chiang/Jiang due to its Cantonese pronunciation.
Tong is a Chinese surname. Tong as transcribed in English however represents of a number of different Chinese surnames.
Trang is a Vietnamese surname.
Zong is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 宗. The Wade-Giles transliteration is Tsung.
Ching is a Chinese and English surname.
Thong is a Chinese and Cambodian surname.
Nong is a Chinese surname meaning "farmer". It is romanized Nung in Wade–Giles or Cantonese romanization. According to a 2013 study, it was the 189th most common name in China; it was shared by 640,000 people, or 0.047% of the population, with the surname being most common in Guangxi. It is the 320th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
DazhangzhuangTown is a town situated inside of Beichen District, Tianjin, China. It shares a border with Meichang and Shangmatai Towns in its north, Xiditou Town in its east, Xiaodian Town in its south, as well as Shuangjie Town and Xiazhuzhuang Subdistrict in its west. It is home to 29,900 inhabitants in 2010.
