Chinese surnames

蒙

méng · Meng

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 279
Ancestral seat (junwang)
安定
Wikidata
Q6717058

In other languages

  • German Meng
  • English Meng
  • Spanish Meng
  • French Meng
  • Vietnamese Mông

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Meng Tian250 BCE – 210 BCE

    Chinese inventor and military general from the state of Qin during the Warring States period

  • Meng Yi201 – 210 BCE

    Chinese military general and politician (died 210 BCE)

  • Joseph Meng Ziwen1904 – 2007

    Catholic bishop (1904–2007)

  • William Mong1927 – 2010

    Hong Kong businessman (1927-2010)

  • Meng Deen1806 – 1861

    prince of the Taiping Rebellion

  • Meng Sufen1932 – 2020

    Chinese politician

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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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).