Tèng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tèng is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.9K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 9.2Kfew records
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 Tèng 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480,000 named Đặng, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tèng in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Teng in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 1 more and Đặng in VN Vietnam, ID Indonesia.
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)Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tèng is found
(measured from records)Tèng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #30 | ≈480,000 est. | ≈1 in 209 | 2 | Đặng | 94 |
| MY Malaysia | #264 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Teng | 106 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Đặng | 3 |
| US United States | — | 8,898as Deng | 1 in 37K | 14K | Teng | 341 |
| SG Singapore | #151 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Teng | 143 |
| HK Hong Kong | #839 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Teng | 34 |
| FI Finland | — | 233as Deng | 1 in 24K | 233 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 119 | 1 in 1.8M | 119 | — | 3 |
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: The page provides information about common surnames in Vietnam and names that are banned for registration, published by; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Tèng 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霯
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, wobble, intr.; totter
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, touch
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, vaciller, intr.; chanceler
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, toucher
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tèng mean, and where does it come from?
- Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Tèng a male or female name?
- Tèng 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tèng?
- Mondonomo estimates about 483 thousand people named Đặng in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Malaysia, Indonesia, United States and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tèng?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 119 people named Tèng, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Tèng compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Tèng is the 30th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tèng?
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%A8ngThe 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, “Tèng” — ranked 8th in Vietnam (The page provides information about common surnames in Vietnam and names that are banned for registration, published by). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.