Tẳng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tẳng is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”).
- 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)
34,961 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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)- Middle Englishtange(measured from records)
- Old Norsetangi“pointed metal tool”(measured from records)
From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Old Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tẳng 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tẳng mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- Is Tẳng a male or female name?
- Tẳng 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 Tẳng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Tẳng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tang.
- Where is Tẳng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tẳng 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 Tẳng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 34,961 people named Tẳng in 2010, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Tẳng compared with other names?
- In Macao, Tẳng is the 180th most common surname of 436 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tẳng?
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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%E1%BA%B3ngThe 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, “Tẳng” — the 180th most common surname in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.