Deng
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Deng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 24K
- NONorway1 in 26K
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
- 315 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
8,898 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Deng is read(measured from records)
Deng is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English37%
A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese35%
nonstandard spelling of dēng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Deng in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deng 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 | — | 8,898 | 1 in 37K | 14K | Deng | 315 |
| ES Spain | — | 420 | 1 in 119K | 420 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 233 | 1 in 24K | 233 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 210 | 1 in 26K | 210 | — | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 191 | 1 in 53K | 191 | — | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 148 | 1 in 57K | 148 | Deng | 8 |
| HK Hong Kong | #518 | — | — | — | Deng | 36 |
8,898 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Deng is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In din, Dinka of South Sudan
as a nameAfrican Names
In och, to rise, ascend, mount, raise; to ripen; ritual vessel with high foot; high foot
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In Kurdish, Sound, voice, cry, powerful breath that speaks to the community
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Welsh, alternative form of deg (“ten”)
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)
- Deng Xiaopingb. 1904CNChinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
- Deng Yingchaob. 1904CNChinese politician (1904-1992)
- Trường Chinhb. 1907VNnot in their usual nameformer General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907–1988)
- Beulah Quob. 1923USnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress and activist
- Deng Pufangb. 1944CNson of Deng Xiaoping
- Dennis Dunb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Teresa Tengb. 1953TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese ROC singer (1953-1995)
- Wendi Murdochb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American businesswoman (1968-)
- Deng Yapingb. 1973CNChinese table tennis player
- Luol Dengb. 1985SSSouth Sudanese-British basketball player
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 53 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 762 | #13,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157 | #13,226 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 42 | #6,987 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #9,503 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #18,147 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Deng mean, and where does it come from?
- A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Deng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Deng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deng.
- Where is Deng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Deng is densest in Finland — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Deng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,898 people named Deng in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Deng compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Deng is the 518th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dengThe 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, “Deng” — the 518th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.