Given name & surname
Guang
“of the light”
Guang is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “of the light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “of the light.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
Guang’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Guang
- Sima GuangChinese politician, writer, and historian during the Northern Song dynasty (1019–1086)
- Lü Guangemperor of Later Liang337–400
- Zeng GuangChinese epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Preventionborn 1946
- Pan GuangChinese academicborn 1947
- Yang GuangChinese athleteborn 1963
- Yang GuangChinese ski jumperborn 1984
- Ren GuangChinese musician (1900–1941)
- Yeung KwongHong Kong trade unionist (1926-2015)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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