Wong

From Cantonese, from Chinese:

• 王 (wong⁴, “king”). Doublet of Vuong and Wang.
• 黃／黄 (wong⁴, “yellow”). Doublet of Huynh and Huang.
• 汪 (wong¹).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒŋ/, /wɔːŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɔŋ/, /wɑŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Wong (plural Wongs)

1. A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
   • 2021 March 31, Melissa Chen, “Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few”, in New York Post‎^[1]:

     Would Mr. Kim prefer that our biracial protagonists leave Master Wong to die? Is he ignoring the fact they save him with skills the master taught them?

   • 2025 May 25, Amy Gunia, “This robotic arm is creating traditional Chinese ink paintings”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     But Hong Kong-based cross-media artist Victor Wong didn’t think the painting — which looks like a blurry oil painting of a man — was anything that revolutionary.

• wong, wong out

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wong is the 274^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 111,371 individuals. Wong is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (86.5%) individuals.

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Borrowed from Cantonese 王 (Wong⁴). or 汪 (Wong¹). Doublet of Ong.

Wong

1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese

• IPA^(key): /ˈwon/ [ˈwõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: Wong

Wong m or f by sense

1. a surname from Cantonese

From Cantonese 黃／黄 (wong⁴) or 王 (wong⁴), via English Wong. Doublet of Ng, Uy, Wee, Hwang, Huang, Ong, Wang, and Heng.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwoŋ/ [ˈwoŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Syllabification: Wong

Wong (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜓᜅ᜔)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wong is the 991^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 9,741 individuals.