Fei-Hung
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Meaning
flying wild goose (飛鴻); given name of Wong Fei-hung, the Qing-era folk hero, martial artist and physician mythologized in over 100 Hong Kong films
The story
Fei-Hung can make a claim very few names can: it generated an entire film series, and the record-keepers noticed. The historical Wong Fei-hung, born Wong Sek-cheung, lived from 1847 to 1925, a martial artist, physician, and folk hero who practiced in nineteenth-century Guangzhou. Since 1949, over 100 films and television series featuring him have been produced, mostly in Hong Kong, and the series holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running film series. Kwan Tak-hing played him in over 70 films; Jackie Chan played him in Drunken Master in 1978; Jet Li carried him through Once Upon a Time in China from 1991. The collection records the name's reading as flying wild goose. In American birth records it is absent, as expected for a romanized Cantonese pairing. One nineteenth-century physician's name became a role that Hong Kong cinema has never stopped recasting.
How popular is Fei-Hung around the world?
Fei-Hung does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
United States
under 5 a year
Fei-Hung does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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