The Geng surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,146 people carried this name — #22,450 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted. That is up 52% from 756 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 292 people named Geng.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
120 people named Geng live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
47 people named Geng is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Geng,
with a public archive behind them.
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Geng Wu d. 191
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Geng Wan d. 1078
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Geng Fu d. 1041
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Geng Yinlou d. 1638
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Geng Tong d. 1412
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Geng Ding d. 1445
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Geng.
When the index is not enough
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