Given name & surname · also Korean
Jang
Jang is a surname from Korean, ultimately from Chinese.
Original Korean장
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jang comes from Korean, and ultimately from Chinese.
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Jang’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Jang has a related form in John. Jang has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean. In Korean usage, Jang is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 장.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Jang has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
8 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jang
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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