Asian Last Name Generator
Family names from across Asia, labeled by country
500 surnames from East, Southeast and South Asia, each with its country or people in parentheses, such as Nguyễn (Vietnamese), Vang (Hmong), Siregar (Batak, Indonesia) and Shrestha (Nepali).
About Asian last names
"Asian" is a label of convenience. It covers dozens of unrelated naming systems, and there is no single tradition of Asian surnames. Treat this page as a starting point by country: every entry carries its country or people in parentheses, so you can follow a name to the right tradition. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian and Thai surnames have pages of their own, so only the best-known ones appear here.
The systems differ more than they match. Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese families put the family name first and share a small stock of short names. A Hmong surname is a clan name, such as Vang, Xiong or Moua. In Indonesia the Batak marga and the Minahasan fam pass down the generations, while many other Indonesians have no family name at all. Filipino lists mix Spanish names handed out under a decree of 1849 with native ones like Dimaculangan and Hispanicized Chinese ones like Tiongson. Thai surnames date only from a law of 1913.
Not every culture hands a surname down. Burmese names have no family part, many Javanese go by a single name, and Mongolians, Malays and many Tamils use a father's name instead. Such characters need no surname. Many Cambodian families use the father's given name as the child's family name, so it can change with each generation.
How to choose Asian last names
- Pick the country or people first and the name second. The label after each entry tells you which tradition it belongs to, so a Hmong clan name does not end up on a character from Osaka.
- Mind the order. Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Khmer names put the family name first at home, and many people reverse the order when they live abroad.
- Let the spelling place the character. One Chinese surname is written Chen in Beijing, Chan in Hong Kong and Tan in Singapore, so the Latin spelling alone can tell a reader where a family comes from.
- Keep Vietnamese diacritics when the setting is Vietnam, as in Nguyễn and Trần. In an English-speaking setting most families drop them and write Nguyen and Tran.
- Once you have a country, move to its own page for more depth. The Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian and Thai surname pages linked below go much further than this overview can.
Frequently asked questions
What are some common Asian last names?
There is no single list, because every country has its own system. Well-known examples are Nguyễn and Trần in Vietnam, Kim and Park in Korea, Sato and Suzuki in Japan, Wang and Li in China, and Dela Cruz and Santos in the Philippines. That is why every entry here names its country or people.
Do all Asian cultures use family names?
No. Burmese names have no family part, many Javanese use a single name, and Mongolians, Malays and many Tamils use a father's name rather than a hereditary surname. The names here are family names, clan names, the Batak marga and the Minahasan fam, which are normally passed down, though many Cambodian families take the father's given name as the child's family name.
What is a Hmong clan name?
A Hmong surname is the name of a clan, and people usually count about eighteen of them, including Vang, Yang, Xiong, Lee, Moua and Thao. Members of one clan treat each other as kin, and tradition bars marriage inside the clan. The spellings here are the ones most Hmong American families use.
Why does Lee appear twice with different labels?
The same Latin spelling can belong to unrelated names. Lee (Hmong) is a clan name, while Lee (Korean) is one of the most widespread Korean surnames, and neither comes from the other. The reverse also happens: Chen, Chan and Tan are three spellings of a single Chinese surname in Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien.
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All 500 Asian last names
A: 15 names
- Abbasi (Pakistani)
- Abeysekera (Sri Lankan)
- Adhikari (Nepali)
- Afridi (Pakistani)
- Agarwal (Indian)
- Agbayani (Filipino)
- Ahn (Korean)
- Akanda (Bangladeshi)
- Alatas (Arab Indonesian)
- Alaydrus (Arab Indonesian)
- Amarasinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Arain (Pakistani)
- Aryal (Nepali)
- Assegaf (Arab Indonesian)
- Awan (Pakistani)
B: 24 names
- Bạch (Vietnamese)
- Bae (Korean)
- Baek (Korean)
- Bajracharya (Nepali)
- Balagtas (Filipino)
- Bandara (Sri Lankan)
- Banerjee (Indian)
- Bangash (Pakistani)
- Barua (Bangladeshi)
- Basnet (Nepali)
- Batungbakal (Filipino)
- Bautista (Filipino)
- Bhandari (Nepali)
- Bhattarai (Nepali)
- Bhatti (Pakistani)
- Bhuiyan (Bangladeshi)
- Bista (Nepali)
- Biswas (Bangladeshi)
- Bondoc (Filipino)
- Boonmee (Thai)
- Bose (Indian)
- Bounyavong (Lao)
- Budhathoki (Nepali)
- Bùi (Vietnamese)
C: 27 names
- Cao (Vietnamese)
- Carandang (Filipino)
- Catacutan (Filipino)
- Cayabyab (Filipino)
- Cha (Hmong)
- Chaiyasit (Thai)
- Chan (Cantonese, Hong Kong)
- Chandio (Pakistani)
- Chang (Hmong)
- Chanthavong (Lao)
- Chatterjee (Indian)
- Châu (Vietnamese)
- Chaudhry (Pakistani)
- Chea (Khmer)
- Cheah (Malaysian Chinese)
- Cheema (Pakistani)
- Chen (Chinese)
- Cheng (Hmong)
- Cheung (Cantonese, Hong Kong)
- Chhay (Khmer)
- Chhim (Khmer)
- Chiu (Taiwanese)
- Cho (Korean)
- Choi (Korean)
- Chopra (Indian)
- Chowdhury (Bangladeshi)
- Chue (Hmong)
D: 31 names
- D'Souza (Indian)
- Dahal (Nepali)
- Đàm (Vietnamese)
- Damanik (Batak, Indonesia)
- Đặng (Vietnamese)
- Đào (Vietnamese)
- De Guzman (Filipino)
- de Silva (Sri Lankan)
- Del Rosario (Filipino)
- Dela Cruz (Filipino)
- Dela Peña (Filipino)
- Delos Reyes (Filipino)
- Delos Santos (Filipino)
- Desai (Indian)
- Deshmukh (Indian)
- Devkota (Nepali)
- Dewan (Bangladeshi)
- Dhakal (Nepali)
- Diệp (Vietnamese)
- Dimaano (Filipino)
- Dimaculangan (Filipino)
- Dimagiba (Filipino)
- Dimayuga (Filipino)
- Đinh (Vietnamese)
- Dizon (Filipino)
- Đỗ (Vietnamese)
- Doãn (Vietnamese)
- Đoàn (Vietnamese)
- Dumlao (Filipino)
- Dương (Vietnamese)
- Durrani (Pakistani)
E: 2 names
- Edirisinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Ekanayake (Sri Lankan)
F: 3 names
- Fang (Hmong)
- Fernando (Sri Lankan)
- Fujita (Japanese)
G: 17 names
- Galang (Filipino)
- Gatchalian (Filipino)
- Gatdula (Filipino)
- Gatmaitan (Filipino)
- Gazi (Bangladeshi)
- Ghimire (Nepali)
- Ghosh (Indian)
- Giang (Vietnamese)
- Gill (Indian)
- Ginting (Batak, Indonesia)
- Goh (Singaporean Chinese)
- Gowda (Indian)
- Gulo (Nias, Indonesia)
- Gunasekara (Sri Lankan)
- Gunawardena (Sri Lankan)
- Gupta (Indian)
- Gurung (Nepali)
H: 28 names
- Hà (Vietnamese)
- Halim (Chinese Indonesian)
- Han (Korean)
- Hang (Hmong)
- Haque (Bangladeshi)
- Harahap (Batak, Indonesia)
- Harefa (Nias, Indonesia)
- Hashimoto (Japanese)
- Hayashi (Japanese)
- Heng (Khmer)
- Heo (Korean)
- Her (Hmong)
- Herath (Sri Lankan)
- Hettiarachchi (Sri Lankan)
- Higa (Okinawan, Japan)
- Hồ (Vietnamese)
- Hoàng (Vietnamese)
- Hong (Korean)
- Howlader (Bangladeshi)
- Hsieh (Taiwanese)
- Hsu (Taiwanese)
- Hứa (Vietnamese)
- Huang (Chinese)
- Hutabarat (Batak, Indonesia)
- Hutagalung (Batak, Indonesia)
- Huỳnh (Vietnamese)
- Hwang (Korean)
- Hwangbo (Korean)
I: 8 names
- Ikeda (Japanese)
- Ilagan (Filipino)
- Inoue (Japanese)
- Insixiengmai (Lao)
- Inthavong (Lao)
- Ishikawa (Japanese)
- Ito (Japanese)
- Iyer (Indian)
J: 13 names
- Jaidee (Thai)
- Jain (Indian)
- Jamali (Pakistani)
- Jang (Korean)
- Janjua (Pakistani)
- Jayasinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Jayasuriya (Sri Lankan)
- Jayawardena (Sri Lankan)
- Jeon (Korean)
- Joarder (Bangladeshi)
- Joshi (Indian)
- Junejo (Pakistani)
- Jung (Korean)
K: 33 names
- Kaewmanee (Thai)
- Kakar (Pakistani)
- Kandou (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Kang (Korean)
- Kapoor (Indian)
- Karki (Nepali)
- Karunaratne (Sri Lankan)
- Kato (Japanese)
- Kawilarang (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Kazi (Bangladeshi)
- Keo (Khmer)
- Khadka (Nepali)
- Khamvongsa (Lao)
- Khanal (Nepali)
- Khandaker (Bangladeshi)
- Khang (Hmong)
- Kharal (Pakistani)
- Khattak (Pakistani)
- Khokhar (Pakistani)
- Khoo (Malaysian Chinese)
- Khosa (Pakistani)
- Khương (Vietnamese)
- Kiều (Vietnamese)
- Kim (Korean)
- Kimura (Japanese)
- Kinjo (Okinawan, Japan)
- Kobayashi (Japanese)
- Kong (Hmong)
- Kuch (Khmer)
- Kue (Hmong)
- Kulkarni (Indian)
- Kusumaatmadja (Sundanese, Indonesia)
- Kwon (Korean)
L: 30 names
- Lacsamana (Filipino)
- Lacson (Filipino)
- Lại (Vietnamese)
- Lâm (Vietnamese)
- Lamichhane (Nepali)
- Lasut (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Latuconsina (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Lê (Vietnamese)
- Lee (Hmong)
- Lee (Korean)
- Leghari (Pakistani)
- Leimena (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Lengkong (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Lesmana (Chinese Indonesian)
- Leung (Cantonese, Hong Kong)
- Li (Chinese)
- Lim (Singaporean Chinese)
- Limbu (Nepali)
- Liu (Chinese)
- Liyanage (Sri Lankan)
- Locsin (Filipino)
- Long (Khmer)
- Lor (Hmong)
- Luangrath (Lao)
- Lubis (Batak, Indonesia)
- Lucman (Maranao, Philippines)
- Lumbantobing (Batak, Indonesia)
- Lương (Vietnamese)
- Lưu (Vietnamese)
- Lý (Vietnamese)
M: 47 names
- Ma (Chinese)
- Mạc (Vietnamese)
- Macaraeg (Filipino)
- Macarambon (Maranao, Philippines)
- Madlangbayan (Filipino)
- Magar (Nepali)
- Magbanua (Filipino)
- Magtibay (Filipino)
- Maharjan (Nepali)
- Mai (Vietnamese)
- Majumder (Bangladeshi)
- Malabanan (Filipino)
- Malhotra (Indian)
- Malik (Pakistani)
- Mam (Khmer)
- Mamahit (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Manalo (Filipino)
- Manandhar (Nepali)
- Mandagi (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Mangubat (Filipino)
- Manivong (Lao)
- Manurung (Batak, Indonesia)
- Mao (Khmer)
M, continued
- Maramis (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Marasigan (Filipino)
- Marwat (Pakistani)
- Matsumoto (Japanese)
- Matulessy (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Mazari (Pakistani)
- Meas (Khmer)
- Mehta (Indian)
- Memon (Pakistani)
- Mendis (Sri Lankan)
- Mengal (Pakistani)
- Menon (Indian)
- Miah (Bangladeshi)
- Mishra (Indian)
- Miyagi (Okinawan, Japan)
- Mollah (Bangladeshi)
- Mondal (Bangladeshi)
- Moon (Korean)
- Mori (Japanese)
- Moua (Hmong)
- Mridha (Bangladeshi)
- Mukherjee (Indian)
- Munasinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Munshi (Bangladeshi)
N: 19 names
- Naidu (Indian)
- Nainggolan (Batak, Indonesia)
- Nair (Indian)
- Nakamura (Japanese)
- Namgung (Korean)
- Nanayakkara (Sri Lankan)
- Nanlohy (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Napitupulu (Batak, Indonesia)
- Nasution (Batak, Indonesia)
- Nepomuceno (Filipino)
- Neupane (Nepali)
- Ng (Singaporean Chinese)
- Nget (Khmer)
- Nghiêm (Vietnamese)
- Ngô (Vietnamese)
- Nguyễn (Vietnamese)
- Nhek (Khmer)
- Nhem (Khmer)
- Niazi (Pakistani)
O: 7 names
- Ogawa (Japanese)
- Oh (Korean)
- Ondaatje (Sri Lankan)
- Ooi (Malaysian Chinese)
- Oshiro (Okinawan, Japan)
- Ouk (Khmer)
- Ouyang (Chinese)
P: 31 names
- Panganiban (Filipino)
- Pangaribuan (Batak, Indonesia)
- Pangemanan (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Pangilinan (Filipino)
- Panjaitan (Batak, Indonesia)
- Paracha (Pakistani)
- Park (Korean)
- Pasaribu (Batak, Indonesia)
- Patel (Indian)
- Pathirana (Sri Lankan)
- Patil (Indian)
- Pattiasina (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Pattinama (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Patwary (Bangladeshi)
- Peiris (Sri Lankan)
- Pen (Khmer)
- Perera (Sri Lankan)
- Pha (Hmong)
- Phạm (Vietnamese)
- Phan (Vietnamese)
- Phanthavong (Lao)
- Phommachanh (Lao)
- Phommasack (Lao)
- Phùng (Vietnamese)
- Pich (Khmer)
- Pillai (Indian)
- Pokharel (Nepali)
- Poudel (Nepali)
- Prak (Khmer)
- Pramanik (Bangladeshi)
- Purba (Batak, Indonesia)
Q: 4 names
- Quách (Vietnamese)
- Quek (Singaporean Chinese)
- Quiambao (Filipino)
- Qureshi (Pakistani)
R: 13 names
- Rai (Nepali)
- Ranasinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Rao (Indian)
- Ratnayake (Sri Lankan)
- Rattanavong (Lao)
- Ratulangi (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Reddy (Indian)
- Regmi (Nepali)
- Reyes (Filipino)
- Rondonuwu (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Ros (Khmer)
- Rumengan (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Ryu (Korean)
S: 58 names
- Saelee (Thai)
- Saelim (Thai)
- Saetang (Thai)
- Sahetapy (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Saito (Japanese)
- Salonga (Filipino)
- Sam (Khmer)
- Samaraweera (Sri Lankan)
- Sandhu (Indian)
- Santos (Filipino)
- Sao (Khmer)
- Sapkota (Nepali)
- Saragih (Batak, Indonesia)
- Sarker (Bangladeshi)
- Sasaki (Japanese)
- Sato (Japanese)
- Sayavong (Lao)
- Sembiring (Batak, Indonesia)
- Seneviratne (Sri Lankan)
- Seng (Khmer)
- Seo (Korean)
- Shah (Indian)
- Shakya (Nepali)
- Sharma (Indian)
- Sherpa (Nepali)
- Shetty (Indian)
- Shihab (Arab Indonesian)
- Shimabukuro (Okinawan, Japan)
- Shimizu (Japanese)
S, continued
- Shin (Korean)
- Shrestha (Nepali)
- Siddiqui (Pakistani)
- Sihombing (Batak, Indonesia)
- Sikder (Bangladeshi)
- Simanjuntak (Batak, Indonesia)
- Simatupang (Batak, Indonesia)
- Sinaga (Batak, Indonesia)
- Singh (Indian)
- Siregar (Batak, Indonesia)
- Sison (Filipino)
- Sitompul (Batak, Indonesia)
- Situmorang (Batak, Indonesia)
- Siwabessy (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Sok (Khmer)
- Soliman (Filipino)
- Son (Korean)
- Sondakh (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Song (Korean)
- Soomro (Pakistani)
- Souvannavong (Lao)
- Srisuwan (Thai)
- Subedi (Nepali)
- Sumulong (Filipino)
- Sun (Chinese)
- Suon (Khmer)
- Supit (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Suwannarat (Thai)
- Suzuki (Japanese)
T: 47 names
- Tạ (Vietnamese)
- Tahalele (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Takahashi (Japanese)
- Talpur (Pakistani)
- Talukdar (Bangladeshi)
- Tamang (Nepali)
- Tamano (Maranao, Philippines)
- Tamashiro (Okinawan, Japan)
- Tampubolon (Batak, Indonesia)
- Tan (Singaporean Chinese)
- Tanaka (Japanese)
- Tăng (Vietnamese)
- Tanuwijaya (Chinese Indonesian)
- Tarafdar (Bangladeshi)
- Tarar (Pakistani)
- Tarigan (Batak, Indonesia)
- Tay (Singaporean Chinese)
- Telaumbanua (Nias, Indonesia)
- Tennakoon (Sri Lankan)
- Teo (Singaporean Chinese)
- Teoh (Malaysian Chinese)
- Tep (Khmer)
- Thạch (Vietnamese)
T, continued
- Thái (Vietnamese)
- Thammavong (Lao)
- Thao (Hmong)
- Thapa (Nepali)
- Thongdee (Thai)
- Thor (Hmong)
- Tiong (Malaysian Chinese)
- Tiongson (Filipino)
- Tith (Khmer)
- Tiwana (Pakistani)
- Tô (Vietnamese)
- Tolentino (Filipino)
- Tôn (Vietnamese)
- Tống (Vietnamese)
- Touch (Khmer)
- Trần (Vietnamese)
- Triệu (Vietnamese)
- Trịnh (Vietnamese)
- Trương (Vietnamese)
- Tsai (Taiwanese)
- Từ (Vietnamese)
- Tuazon (Filipino)
- Tuladhar (Nepali)
- Tumbelaka (Minahasan, Indonesia)
U: 1 name
- Ung (Khmer)
V: 8 names
- Văn (Vietnamese)
- Vang (Hmong)
- Verma (Indian)
- Viray (Filipino)
- Võ (Vietnamese)
- Vũ (Vietnamese)
- Vue (Hmong)
- Vương (Vietnamese)
W: 13 names
- Wang (Chinese)
- Warraich (Pakistani)
- Waruwu (Nias, Indonesia)
- Watanabe (Japanese)
- Wattimena (Moluccan, Indonesia)
- Waworuntu (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Weerasinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Wijaya (Chinese Indonesian)
- Wijesinghe (Sri Lankan)
- Wiranatakusumah (Sundanese, Indonesia)
- Wong (Cantonese, Hong Kong)
- Wowor (Minahasan, Indonesia)
- Wu (Chinese)
X: 2 names
- Xiong (Hmong)
- Xu (Chinese)
Y: 13 names
- Yadav (Indian)
- Yamada (Japanese)
- Yamaguchi (Japanese)
- Yamamoto (Japanese)
- Yang (Hmong)
- Yeo (Singaporean Chinese)
- Yeoh (Malaysian Chinese)
- Yim (Khmer)
- Yoo (Korean)
- Yoon (Korean)
- Yoshida (Japanese)
- Yousafzai (Pakistani)
- Yuchengco (Filipino)