# Wāng

Wāng (汪) is a Chinese surname. It was 104th of the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the verse Yáo, Shào, Zhàn, Wāng (姚邵湛汪). In 2013, the Fuxi Cultural Association found the name to be the 60th most common in China, being shared by around 4.83 million people or 0.360% of the population, with the province with the largest population being Anhui. A study of the 2020 census found it to be the 59th most common surname in mainland China.
It is also Wong in Cantonese, Ong or Ang in Hokkien, Waung or Vong in American English, and Ō or Oh in Japanese. However, in Vietnamese, it is written Uông. Wāng was listed by a 2007 NCIIS survey as the 58th most common surname in mainland China and by Yang Xuxian as the 76th most common surname in Taiwan.

## Origins of Wāng

汪 means "vast" in the Chinese language, and is often used to describe oceans. In the modern vernacular Chinese, it is also the onomatopoeia for the sound of a barking dog. Baxter and Sagart reconstructed it as *qʷˤaŋ and 'wang, respectively.
* It was originally a shortening of Wang Mang (汪芒), or Wang Wang (汪罔), name of a state in present-day Deqing County, Zhejiang. After it was conquered by a neighboring state, its inhabitants fled and the surname was shortened to Wang (汪).
* The name is derived from the ancestral surname Jiang (姜).

### Chinese Muslims

Unlike other Hui people who claim foreign descent, Hui in Gansu with the surname Wāng are descended from Han Chinese who converted to Islam and married Hui or Dongxiang people.
A town called Tangwangchuan in Gansu had a multi-ethnic populace, the Tang (唐) and Wāng families predominating. The Tang and Wang families were originally of non-Muslim Han extraction, but by the Twentieth Century some branches of the families had become Muslim by intermarriage or conversion.

## Notable people

* Cecilia Wang (汪詩詩; born 1981), Hong Kong model
* Wang Daohan (汪道涵; 1915–2005), Chinese diplomat and co-negotiator of the 1992 Consensus
* Wang Dazhi (汪达之; 1903–1980), Chinese educator
* Wang Deyao (汪德耀; 1903–2000), Chinese cell biologist
* Wang Dongxing (汪东兴; 1916–2015), Chinese military commander and politician
* Wang Fang (汪芳; pen name Fang Fang, born 1955), Chinese author
* Wang Feng (汪峰; born 1971), Chinese rock musician and composer
* Frank Wang (汪滔; born 1980), Chinese engineer, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of DJI
* Wang Haijian (汪海健; born 2000), Chinese footballer
* Wang Han (汪涵; born 1974), Chinese television variety show host
* Helen Kay Wang (née Below; 汪海岚; born 1965), English sinologist and translator
* Wang Hui (汪晖; born 1959), Chinese professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University
* Irene Wang (汪圓圓; born 1986), Hong Kong model and actress
* Wang Jiajie (汪佳捷; born 1988), Chinese footballer
* Jianping Wang (汪建平), Chinese computer scientist
* Wang Jingwei (汪精衞; 1883–1944) Chinese politician, former Kuomintang officer and later Japanese collaborator
* Wang Jinxian (汪晋贤; born 1996), Chinese footballer
* Jiro Wang (汪東城; born 1981), Taiwanese singer and actor
* Liza Wang (汪明荃; born 1947), Hong Kong diva, actress, MC
* Wang Qiang (汪强; born 1984), Chinese international footballer
* Wang Shun (汪顺; born 1994), Chinese competitive swimmer
* Silence Wang (汪蘇瀧; born 1989), Chinese pop singer-songwriter and record producer
* Wang Song (汪嵩; born 1983), Chinese footballer
* Wang Tao (汪涛; born 1962), Chinese–British archaeologist and art historian specialising in early Chinese art
* Wang Tao (汪涛), Chinese economist
* Wang Weifan (汪維藩; 1927-2015), Chinese evangelical Christian leader of the state-sanctioned
* Wang Xiaofeng (汪嘯風; born 1944), Chinese retired politician
* Wang Yang (汪洋; born 1955), Chinese retired politician
* Wang You (汪猷; 1910–1997), Chinese biochemist, pioneer of antibiotics and biochemistry studies in China
* Chloe Bennet, (汪可盈; born 1992 as Chloé Wang), American actress and singer
* John Clang (汪春龙; born 1973 as Ang Choon Leng), American-based Singaporean artist
* Xu Yulan (汪玉蘭; born Wang Yulan, 1921 – 2017), Yue opera singer-actress