Bằng
given name · Latin script
Meaning: flat
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bằng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 211K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- FIFinland1 in 348K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
1,573 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bang in US United States.
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)
flat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bằng 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,573 | 1 in 211K | 4.7K | Bang | 71 |
| FI Finland | 16 | 1 in 348K | 162 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 4K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 25 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 23 | — | 5 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
1,573 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Bằng is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tyz, diploma
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hong Pengb. 1072not in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB=10615
- Xu Pengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 225708
- Zhang Pingnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB=158370
- Yang Pingnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB=22572
- Li Pengnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 92975
- Wang Pengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 293417
- Bao Pingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 320459
- Tang Pengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 241902
- Yu Pingnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 194139
- Han Pengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 248914
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #16,878 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5 | #16,698 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bằng mean, and where does it come from?
- flat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bằng a male or female name?
- Bằng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bằng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Bằng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bang.
- Where is Bằng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bằng is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bằng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,573 people named Bằng in 2020, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bằng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%E1%BA%B1ngThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bằng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.