Chinese surnames

孟

mèng · Meng

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 94
Ancestral seat (junwang)
平陆
Wikidata
Q856300

In other languages

  • German Meng
  • English Meng
  • French Meng
  • Korean 멍
  • Vietnamese Mạnh

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Mencius372 BCE – 289 BCE

    Chinese Confucian philosopher (372–289 BC)

  • Meng Haoran690 – 740

    poet from the Tang Dynasty

  • Meng Huo101 – 300

    3rd century tribal leader in the Nanzhong region

  • Meng Zhixiang874 – 934

    general and later founder of the Later Shu kingdom

  • Meng Chang919 – 965

    Emperor of Later Shu

  • Meng Jiao751 – 814

    Chinese poet

  • Meng Da150 – 228

    State of Cao Wei general (died 228)

  • Empress Meng1073 – 1131

    Chinese empress

  • Meng Xiaodong1908 – 1977

    Chinese Peking opera actress

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).