Tanguy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Breton name, from tan 'fire' + ki 'dog' or possibly a saint's name
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tɑ̃.ɡi/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Tanguy is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 486K
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
26 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Breton name, from tan 'fire' + ki 'dog' or possibly a saint's name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tanguy 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.
26 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Tanguy 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 French, a male given name from Breton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Breton: tan « feu » + ki « chien »; souvent glossé « chien de feu » ou « guerrier de feu ». Saint Tanguy, abbé breton (VIe s.).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine celtique, signifie « feu » et « guerrier ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Yves, French painter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Breton name, from tan 'fire' + ki 'dog'; St Tanguy, Breton saint.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tanguy Pastureaub. 1974FRFrench humorist and radio host
- Pierre Wachéb. 1974FRnot in their usual nameFrench engineer
- Teprb. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench musician and disc jockey
- Tanguy Ngombob. 1989CGQatari basketball player (born 1989)
- Tanguy Le Calveb. 1995FRFrench Go player
- Tanguy Ndombeleb. 1996FRFrench footballer (born 1996)
- Tanguy Nefb. 1996CHSwiss alpine skier
- Tanguy Turgisb. 1998FRcyclist
- Tanguy Coulibalyb. 2001FRIvorian and French association football player
- Tanguy Nianzoub. 2002FRFrench footballer (born 2002)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 26 | #5,425 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #5,405 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #23,622 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #12,499 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #7,632 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #27,276 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Tanguy mean, and where does it come from?
- Breton name, from tan 'fire' + ki 'dog' or possibly a saint's name Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Tanguy?
- In French /tɑ̃.ɡi/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Tanguy a male or female name?
- Tanguy is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2017).
- In which country does Tanguy have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 26 people named Tanguy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tanguy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tanguy is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tanguy?
- In Poland, the national register counted 26 people named Tanguy in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tanguy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tanguyThe 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, “Tanguy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.