Lèng
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Lèng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Yorks and Durham.
- FIFinland1 in 206K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 207K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 271K
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
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)
1,610 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leng in US United States.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Yorks and Durham. (i) nickname, apparently from Middle English leng(e) ‘ling’ (Molva molva), for someone who dealt in or was thought to resemble this fish; compare Pike , Tench , Dace , and other fish names. However, the 1275 Norfolk example might be an irregular spelling of the Norfolk surname Ling . (ii) post-medieval examples in Yorks and NE England are more likely to represent English pronunciation of Scottish Laing .
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lèng is found
(measured from records)Lèng 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 | 1,610 | 1 in 207K | 2.1K | Leng | 16 |
| ES Spain | 56 | 1 in 893K | 56 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 43 | 1 in 890K | 24 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 27 | 1 in 206K | 30 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 26 | 1 in 392K | 26 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | — | 1 |
1,610 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Lèng 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倮
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lèng mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Yorks and Durham. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lèng?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Lèng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leng. After it come Spain, Poland, Brazil and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lèng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lèng is densest in Finland — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lèng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,610 people named Lèng in 2010, about 1 in 207 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lèng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%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, “Lèng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.