Dreng

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from OE dreng, from ON drengr ‘young man’, used of a free tenant; first attested Dreng de Calualea 1161 P (Nb)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dɹɛŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 4.7M(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 5.1M

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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈21 people, est.

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dr-Eng in EG Egypt, SY Syria.

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)

Derivation of Dreng: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dreng
  1. OEdreng(measured from records)
  2. ONdrengr(measured from records)

from OE dreng, from ON drengr ‘young man’, used of a free tenant; first attested Dreng de Calualea 1161 P (Nb)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

How Dreng is read(measured from records)

Dreng is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English49%

    from OE dreng, from ON drengr ‘young man’, used of a free tenant; first attested Dreng de Calualea 1161 P (Nb)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    A kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Norwegian19%

    a farmhand

    as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German7.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Dreng in German.

  • Spanish5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Dreng in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dreng 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 Dreng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt≈21 est.≈1 in 5.1M—Dr-Eng10
SY Syria≈4 est.≈1 in 4.7M—Dr-Eng3
NO Norway——106——
SE Sweden——1——

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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Dreng is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, A warrior or soldier; a person who fights.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, strong, healthy, sound

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, warrior; soldier

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Dreng,
InformalHi Dreng,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Dreng
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—106#14,515
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#82,121

Reference works 3

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 Dreng mean, and where does it come from?
from OE dreng, from ON drengr ‘young man’, used of a free tenant; first attested Dreng de Calualea 1161 P (Nb) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Dreng?
A machine transcription gives /dɹɛŋ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Dreng have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 people named Dreng in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Dr-Eng.
How common is the name Dreng?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 people in Egypt have Dreng as their first given name, about 1 in 5.1 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, “Dreng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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