Peng (彭)
A Taiwanese surname.
彭 P'eng
- Zhuyin
- ㄆㄥˊ
- Pinyin
- péng
- Wade-Giles
- P'eng
- Further spellings of 彭
- Peng
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Phênn MOE's surname list also gives Phînn. Phênn is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while phîng is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- pang¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 36th most common surname, roughly 0.59% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
In MOE's Mandarin dictionary, 彭 is given as an ancient place name in the state of Zheng and as a surname.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Peng Zu (彭祖), said to have been a descendant of Zhuanxu and enfeoffed at Dapeng (大彭) near present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu; his descendants took the name of the state. Hall name (堂號): 隴西堂.
Saying it 我姓彭 — wǒ xìng péng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄆㄥˊ), "my family name is 彭"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).