Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Feng through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,049 as a first name in 2020; 16,357 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Feng’s family of names
In English usage, Feng as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with PHUNG. In English usage, Feng as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Filipino form FUNG. In English usage, Feng as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Indonesian form PHUNG.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Feng has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Phungdoublet · English, Indonesian
- 峰equivalent
- 楓equivalent
- Lǐequivalent
- Fungdoublet · English, Tagalog
- 鳳equivalent
- 逢equivalent
- 奉equivalent
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People named Feng
- Lei FengChinese soldier and communist icon (1940–1962)
- Zhou FengChinese wrestlerborn 1993
- Wang FengChinese diverborn 1979
- LimahongChinese pirate1400–1575
- Tien FengChinese actor (1928–2015)
- Tian FengHan dynasty official and advisor (died 200)101–200
- Wu FengChinese merchant whose legend was once popular in Taiwan1699–1769
- Wang FengChinese canoeistborn 1985
- Zu FengChinese actorborn 1974
Characters named Feng: Pan Feng (Romance of the Three Kingdoms).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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