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孟 Meng — a top-100 surname
81.0 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Meng |
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| Strokes | 8 |
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| Commonness | a top-100 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
The surname of Mencius, the second greatest Confucian sage after Confucius.
What the character means
First-born, beginning, diligent
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China66
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write80
8 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Mencius (Meng Ke) — Confucian sage (372–289 BC), author of the Mencius, champion of human goodness.
- Meng Haoran — Tang dynasty poet celebrated for his pastoral and landscape verses, often associated with Wang Wei.
- Meng Jiao — Tang poet known for his stark style and the famous poem 'Wandering Son's Song'.
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