Chantung

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Étoffe de soie sauvage fabriquée dans la province chinoise de Chantung ou Shandong

Chantung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 41M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Australia (inferred from the name graph)

≈17 people, est.

Record sources
15 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chan-Tung in AU Australia.

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)
recorded in French

Étoffe de soie sauvage fabriquée dans la province chinoise de Chantung ou Shandong. On peut encore l’écrire chantoung, shantoung ou shantung.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Chantung 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.

Where Chantung is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AU Australia≈17 est.≈1 in 1.5MChan-Tung7
US United States≈8 est.≈1 in 41MChantung15
GB United Kingdom≈5 est.≈1 in 13MChantung1

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Chantung is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written จันทร์ตั้ง, จันทรตัง, จันทร์ตัง, จันทรตั้ง, จันทร์ตุง

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Chan-Tung

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Chan-Tung

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chantung under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chantung mean?
Recorded meaning: Étoffe de soie sauvage fabriquée dans la province chinoise de Chantung ou Shandong.
In which country does Chantung have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 people named Chantung in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Chan-Tung.
How common is the name Chantung?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 people in Australia have Chantung as their first surname, about 1 in 1.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Chantung”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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