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孔 Kong — a top-100 surname
87.3 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Kong |
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| Strokes | 4 |
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| Commonness | a top-100 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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| Theme | Ancient lineage |
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Where the surname comes from
The surname of Confucius, China's greatest sage — a name of profound cultural weight.
Theme basis：孔 = Confucius's surname
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 China69
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write100
4 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Confucius (Kong Qiu) — The great sage (551–479 BC) whose teachings shaped East Asian civilization for two millennia.
- Kong Rong — A Eastern Han dynasty scholar-official, one of the Seven Scholars of Jian'an, famed for his cleverness and the story of yielding pears.
- Kong Shangren — Qing dynasty playwright, author of the famous opera 'The Peach Blossom Fan'.
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