# Whang (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/whang/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,522 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,253 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 202,855 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.5% (1,457 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Chinese 黃 /黄 (huáng) (also Mandarin 黃 /黄 (huáng), Chinese 王 (wáng), Korean 황 (hwang), or Korean 왕 (wang)

## Who carries it

Share of people named Whang in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 2.9% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 93% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Whang in the United States.

## People named Whang

- Suzanne Whang, American actress (1962–2019)

## Similar surnames

Wang, Wong, Womack, Wing, Weems, Wingo, Weng, Wines, Wink, Wiens, Wenz, Winch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.