Étang

loc · Latin script

Meaning: pond (small lake, often shallow)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Étang is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 37Kas Pond(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 38Kas Pond
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 55Kas Pon

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Étang itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,052 named Pond, 2010

Sources
325 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica, as Pond

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PondLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pon in PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Pond in US United States, CA Canada and 폰 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

pond (small lake, often shallow)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Étang counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Étang is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,052as Pond1 in 37K9.1KPond325
GB United Kingdom—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 27K2.4KPon134
PH Philippines—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 55KlistedPon38
MY Malaysia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 26K—Pon25
CA Canada—≈990 est.≈1 in 38K—Pond86
LS Lesotho—≈76 est.≈1 in 26K1—1
DM Dominica—66as Pond1 in 1.1K66—1
KR South Korea#845≈27 est.≈1 in 1.9M—폰8
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—4as Pond1 in 13K4—2

9,052 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Étang is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, A lagoon or pond near France's Mediterranean and Bay of Biscay coasts.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Sundanese, to count

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Étang under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Étang mean, and where does it come from?
pond (small lake, often shallow) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Étang have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Pond, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Étang most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Étang itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Dominica's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people named Pond.
How common is the name Étang?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,052 people named Pond in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
How common is Étang compared with other names?
In South Korea, Étang is the 845th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Étang” — the 845th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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