Wáng is one of the most common surnames in the world and was listed by the People's Republic of China's National Citizen ID Information System as the most common surname in mainland China in April 2007, with 92.88 million bearers and comprising 7.25% of the general population.
[7] In 2019 it was the most common surname in nearly every northern province or province-level division: Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, as well as the southern province of Hainan.
Wang (Korean: 왕) is a fairly rare surname in South Korea.
[13][better source needed] The most ancient family name of Wang was originated from the surname Zi (子).
The original surname of the royal family of Zhou dynasty was Ji (姬).
Jin criticized plans to divert the Gu and Luo rivers and was disinherited by his father.
[18] In other cases, the name can also be traced back to Tian He, who usurped the throne of the Qi in 391 BC.
[19] Moriya Mitsuo wrote a history of the Later Han-Tang period of the Taiyuan Wang.
[20] The prohibition on marriage between the clans issued in 659 by the Gaozong Emperor was flouted by the seven families since a woman of the Boling Cui married a member of the Taiyuan Wang, giving birth to the poet Wang Wei.
[23] The Zhou dynasty King Ling's son Prince Jin is assumed by most to be the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang.
Ō (Japanese: 王) is a rare Japanese name, mostly held by those of Chinese descent, such as the baseball player Sadaharu Oh (王貞治), also known as Wang Chen-chih, as well as Go player, Ō Rissei (王立誠).
In some cases, the meaning of the names were translated into a name that sounds more like the area where these immigrant families settled in such as the surname Suraja, where in this case raja means king in Indonesian and Javanese and Su- is a common prefix within Javanese surnames.
It is a variant spelling of the name Vang which is derived from the Old Norse word vangr, meaning field or meadow.
However, in southern German, its meaning, "grassy slope" or "field of grass", is similar to the Scandinavian surname.