Táng
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to bury the dead
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Táng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 9.5K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 6.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.8K
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
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
34,961 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
to bury the dead
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
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.
| 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
- Dong Yuanb. 934CNnot in their usual name10th-century Chinese artist
- Dong Qichangb. 1555CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist (1555-1636)
- Dong Biwub. 1886CNnot in their usual nameformer acting President of the People's Republic of China (1886–1975)
- 董驃b. 1933CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong horse racing pundit, actor, singer, and show host (1933-2006)
- Tung Chee Hwab. 1937CNnot in their usual namepolitician and businessman from Hong Kong
- Tang Yijunb. 1961CNChinese politician
- Dong Jieb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress and dancer
- Audrey Tangb. 1981TWTaiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer
- Tiffany Tangb. 1983CNChinese actress
- 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(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
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).
- In which country does Táng have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Táng?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A1ngThe 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, “Táng” — the 180th most common surname in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.