Dàng

Locally spelled Dang in VN Vietnam, US United States, IN India.

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.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Dàng is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate surname24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Malaysia

  Also written Dang, Dăng, Dấng, Ďåňg, Dạ̌ng

• a separate surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Dang, Ďang, Dañǵ, Dăng, Dâng

• French surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Cameroon

  Also written Dang, Dặng, Dáng, Dạng, Dăng

• Korean surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Korea, United States, Malaysia, China

  Also written Tang, Dang, 당, 댕, 당현

• English surname26 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Dang, Daeng, D'Ang, Dan-G, Däng

2 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.

Dàng is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Lao, v. help, support. n3 n vertical post from roof beam to peak of “rod, ‘the king post. 38 NJ 1. adj. old. 2. adv. before, irren originally. - cay ‘adv, from the beginning, at first from JE

  as a word·Lao-English Dictionary

• In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 偋

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In bnt-pro, show; teach; announce

  as a word·Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

• In bnt-pro, like; desire

  as a word·Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

• In bnt-pro, watch over

  as a word·Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

• In bnt-pro, shine

  as a word·Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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.

• Wang Tangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 252991

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).

What does the name Dàng mean, and where does it come from?

Borrowed from Vietnamese Đặng. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.

Is Dàng a male or female name?

Dàng is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

In which country does Dàng have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Dàng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dang.

Where is Dàng most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dàng is densest in Norway — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Dàng?

In the United States, the national register counted 30,389 people named Dàng in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.

How common is Dàng compared with other names?

In Vietnam, Dàng is the 18th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.