Hong (surname)

Hong is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname }} (''Hóng''). It was listed 184th among the Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames''. Today it is not among the 100 most common surnames in mainland China but it was the 15th-most-common surname in Taiwan in 2005. As counted by a Chinese census, Taiwan is the area with the largest number of people with the name. It is also the pinyin romanization of a number of less-common names including ''Hóng'' (}}), ''Hóng'' (t }}, s }}), and ''Hóng'' (}}). All of those names are romanized as Hung in Wade-Giles.

"Hong" is also one spelling employed for the Cantonese pronunciation of the surname Xiong (}}).

The Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Hong (that uses the character 洪) is Ang, which is also used for Wang (}}, ''Wāng''). It is also the romanization used for the Korean surname Hong, which uses the character 洪 in hanja, the Khmer surname ហុង (Hong), as well as the surname Hồng in Vietnam, from the Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese character 洪. Provided by Wikipedia