Given name & surname
Liang
“a good man”
Liang is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “a good man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “a good man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Liang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 40 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 6 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 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,143 as a first name in 2020; 32,308 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.
Liang’s family of names
In English usage, Liang as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Niu. Liang has a related form in Lyang.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Makotoequivalent
- Niudoublet · English
- 諒equivalent
- 亮equivalent
- Lươngequivalent
- Leungequivalent
- 涼equivalent
- 糧equivalent
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People named Liang
- Sun LiangEastern Wu emperor from 252 to 258243–260
- Tian LiangChinese diverborn 1979
- Huo LiangChinese diverborn 1989
- Yan LiangMilitary general under warlord Yuan Shao (died 200)
- Sima Liangregent for Jin Dynasty Emperor Hui (died 291)233–291
- Yu LiangJin Dynasty regent and general289–340
- Shin LimCanadian-American magicianborn 1991
- Zhao LiangChinese film director (born 1971)
- Zhang LiangChinese chancellor550–646
Characters named Liang: Kong Liang (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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