Taying
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taying is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. In Brunei it is the 70th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Catalina.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.2Kas Dayang(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 29Kas Dayang
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 90Kas 대양
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 Taying 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named Dayang, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est., as Dayang
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dayang in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, CN China and 1 more, Tayong in PH Philippines, CM Cameroon and Daeyang 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)
A diminutive of Catalina.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taying 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #139 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Dayang | 61 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Dayang | 65 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Dayang | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Tayong | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Tayong | 43 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Daeyang | 11 |
| BN Brunei | #70 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Dayang | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 2as Deyang | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
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 Taying mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of Catalina. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Taying have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Dayang in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Taying?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Deyang in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Taying compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Taying is the 139th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taying?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayingThe 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, “Taying” — the 139th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.