What Is The Story Behind The Name "Wong"?

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That's an interesting one.

Basically, it's an Anglicised version of the original Chinese.

It comes, most commonly, from the Mandarin language.  It can be a simplification of "Hwang" -- which means "yellow", or it can be a corruption of "Wang" -- Wang means "king" in Mandarin.

Wong/Wang can also mean "vastness" or "giants".  There is a legend about Wong / Wang families being descended from Giants -- read more of this fable.

Wang is one of the most common surnames in China; one in ten families have Wang as their surname, in some northern provinces of the Republic.

Meaning king, Wong (Wang) are closely related to the other surnames: Ong, Heng, Voung.

Meaning yellow, Wong (Hwang) is closely related to Huang, Hweng, Oei and Ooi.

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