Tabang
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tabang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabaŋ.
- INIndia1 in 11M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 1.1Mas ทาบาง
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 Tabang 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11M (inferred from the name graph)
117 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thabang in ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom, BW Botswana and ทาบาง in TH Thailand.
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)
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabaŋ.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tabang 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 117 | 1 in 11M | 117 | Tabang | 1 |
| TH Thailand | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | ทาบาง | 28 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Thabang | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Thabang | 3 |
| BW Botswana | — | — | — | Thabang | 4 |
| LS Lesotho | — | — | 16 | — | 1 |
117 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists. 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)
Tabang 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 Filipino, blandness; tastelessness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsg, help, aid, assistance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, help, aid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mba, to help
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tabang mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabaŋ. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Tabang have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 117 people named Tabang, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tabang.
- Where is Tabang most common?
- Tabang is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tabang?
- In India, the national register counted 117 people named Tabang, about 1 in 11 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tabangThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tabang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.