Etang
loc · Latin script
Meaning: near a pond or pool, OF estang (L stagnum standing water, a deriv
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛtɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Etang is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 37Kas Pond(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 38Kas Pond
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 55Kas Pon
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 Etang 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,052 named Pond, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica, as Pond
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pon in PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Pond in US United States, CA Canada and 폰 in KR South Korea.
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)
near a pond or pool, OF estang (L stagnum standing water, a deriv. of stare to stand). Vars.: Esta(i)ng; Destan, Destaing, Detang, Deletang. Dim.: Estagnol.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Etang 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 | — | 9,052as Pond | 1 in 37K | 9.1K | Pond | 325 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 2.4K | Pon | 134 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | listed | Pon | 38 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Pon | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Pond | 86 |
| LS Lesotho | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | — | 66as Pond | 1 in 1.1K | 66 | — | 1 |
| KR South Korea | #845 | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | 폰 | 8 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 4as Pond | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | 2 |
9,052 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; the ph-wiktionary-names register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; 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)
Etang is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wuu, Slip
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 1 | #20 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Etang come from?
- near a pond or pool, OF estang (L stagnum standing water, a deriv. of stare to stand). Vars.: Esta(i)ng; Destan, Destaing, Detang, Deletang. Dim.: Estagnol. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Etang?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛtɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Etang mean?
- Recorded meaning: near a pond or pool, OF estang (L stagnum standing water, a deriv.
- In which country does Etang have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Pond, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Etang most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Etang itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Dominica's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people named Pond.
- How common is the name Etang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,052 people named Pond in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Etang compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Etang is the 845th most common surname of 14,133 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/etangThe 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, “Etang” — the 845th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.