Eng (name)


Eng is a Chinese, German, and Scandinavian surname, as well as a given name in various cultures.

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Origins

Eng may be the spelling of multiple Chinese surnames, based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese; they are listed below by their spelling in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the standard Mandarin pronunciation:
Ng is another spelling of the Cantonese pronunciation of the first two surnames listed above. History of [Chinese Americans in the Pacific Northwest|Chinese Americans in the Pacific Northwest] tended to prefer the spelling Eng over Ng. The Cambodian surname Eng probably originates from the latter three surnames mentioned above.
As a German surname, Eng is a variant spelling of Enge, a topographic surname for a person who lived in a valley or other such narrow place, from German 'narrow'.
The Norwegian and Swedish surname Eng originated as an ornamental surname from Old Norse and Swedish 'meadow'.

Statistics

As of 2023, there were 910 people in Norway with the surname Eng.
The 2010 [United States census] found 10,862 people with the surname Eng, making it the 3,352nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 10,102 in the 2000 census. In both censuses, roughly three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian and 14% as non-Hispanic white. It was the 179th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 census who identified as Asian.

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