Meng (surname)

Meng

Origin
Word/name	China
Region of origin	China

Meng (Chinese: 孟; pinyin: Mèng; Wade–Giles: Meng) is a Chinese family name. Meng is a Shi surname or clan name (氏), as opposed to the xing (姓) category of surname. Meng is of the type of surname which was a member of the list of names denoting seniority within a certain family: in ancient usage, the characters of meng (孟), zhong (仲), shu (叔) and ji (季) were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family. These were sometimes adopted as surnames. Of these, Meng is the best known, being the surname of the philosopher Mencius (孟子).

People with the surname Meng

• Meng Haoran (孟浩然), a Tang Dynasty poet listed in the Mencius family genealogy
• Meng Jia (孟佳), Jia is a Chinese singer member of South Korean girl group Miss A.
• Meng Jiao (孟郊), a Tang Dynasty poet, grandson of Meng Haoran
• Meng Ke (孟軻/孟轲), also known as Mencius (Meng Zi, 孟子)
• Grace Meng, Asian-American politician
• Grace Mang, Chinese-Australian environmentalist
• Jimmy Meng, Asian-American politician
• Meng Suping (孟苏平), Chinese weightlifter

See also

• Chinese Wikipedia article on the family of Mencius (in Chinese)