Táng

Name: Táng: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: to bury the dead

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

DKDenmark1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
NLNetherlands1 in 8.8K
USUnited States1 in 9.5K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 101 (measured from records)
: 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Tang

Locally spelled Tang in US United States, NL Netherlands, MO Macao and Tång in SE Sweden, NO Norway.

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

to bury the dead

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Táng is found

Táng 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 Táng is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	34,961	1 in 9.5K	43K	Tang	101
NL Netherlands	—	1,970	1 in 8.8K	2K	Tang	9
ES Spain	—	993	1 in 50K	993	—	5
DK Denmark	—	923	1 in 6.4K	923	—	—
SE Sweden	—	764	1 in 13K	764	Tång	9
NO Norway	—	462	1 in 12K	462	Tång	12
FI Finland	—	429	1 in 13K	429	—	3
MO Macao	#180	—	—	—	Tang	3

34,961 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way

Táng is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Chinese surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Also written Tang, T'Ang, Tăng, Tång, Tặng
English surname58 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Hindi
Also written Tang, Taeng, Tăng, Täng, Tång
Italian surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Italy, China, San Marino
Also written Tang, Tăng, Tặng

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Táng is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In bnt-pro, begin, tr.; go ahead; obstruct the passage
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 傏
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tyj, road, path, way
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, read; count
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, go ahead
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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

Tang Yijunb. 1961CNChinese politician
Audrey Tangb. 1981TWTaiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer
Dong Fangzhuob. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Táng 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 Táng mean, and where does it come from?: to bury the dead Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Táng?: In the United States, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Táng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tang. After it come Netherlands, Spain, Denmark and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Táng most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Táng is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Táng?: In the United States, the national register counted 34,961 people named Táng in 2010, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
How common is Táng compared with other names?: In Macao, Táng is the 180th most common surname of 436 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A1ng

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Táng” — the 180th most common surname in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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