Distribution
Zhuang was not listed among the 100-most-common surnames in mainland China during the 1982 census or the 2007 MPS report on housing registrations; however, it has been ranked as the 24th-most-common surname on Taiwan.
Zhuang is a rather uncommon name in the United States. It was ranked 53,245th during the 1990 census and 31,703rd during the year 2000 one. Chuang is more common, having been ranked 24,816th in 1990 and 11,621st in 2000. The variant spellings Chong, Ching, and Tong are all much more common, but include other Chinese surnames as well.
Similarly, Zhuang was unlisted among the 200-most-common peculiarly Chinese surnames (i.e., excluding ethnically diverse surnames such as "Lee") in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario, but the variant romanizations Chong, Ching, and Tong were all listed.
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