Given name & surname · also Khmer
Meng
Meng is a surname from Khmer, ultimately from German. It is used in English and German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Meng comes from Khmer, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Meng through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 568
- 555 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 41 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 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 41 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,891 as a first name in 2020; 7,390 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.
Meng’s family of names
In English usage, Meng as a surname has a conventional equivalent in Mèng. In English usage, Meng as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Marathi form मेंग. In English usage, Meng as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Khmer form មេង.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Meng has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its German 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.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Mingequivalent
- 猛equivalent
- 蒙equivalent
- 明equivalent
- Maengequivalent
- 萌equivalent
- 夢equivalent
- Mengshas masculine form
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People named Meng
- Lee Meng-yuanTaiwanese sport shooterborn 1994
- Dai MengChinese idol singerborn 1993
- Lee MengMalaysian Chinese communist guerrilla (1926–2012)
- Su MengChinese classical guitaristborn 1988
- Wu MengChinese freestyle skierborn 2002
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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