Tamang
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tamang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 49K
- INIndia1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18 (inferred from the name graph)
1,639,866 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | 1,639,866 | 1 in 18 | 1.6M | Tamang | 5 |
| IN India | #502 | 26,011 | 1 in 51K | 26K | Tamang | 125 |
| MY Malaysia | #411 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Tamang | 21 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Tamang | 37 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,300 | 1 in 29K | 941 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 491 | 1 in 12K | 491 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 221 | 1 in 25K | 221 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 202 | 1 in 27K | 202 | — | 7 |
1,639,866 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Tamang is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An ethnic group of Nepal, also found in parts of India.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Prem Singh Tamangb. 1968INIndian politician
- Robin Tamangb. 1968SGNepalese singer
- Prashant Tamangb. 1983INIndian singer and film actor
- Sara Devi Tamangb. 1984NPbadminton player
- Nangsal Tamangb. 1987NPbadminton player
- Tirtha Bahadur Tamangb. 1987NPNepalese ultramarathon runner
- Ratnajit Tamangb. 1993NPbadminton player
- Nima Tamangb. 1993INfootballer
- Ashika TamangNepalese politician, activist, and actress (born 1992)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Tamang have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 1.6 million people named Tamang, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamang.
- Where is Tamang most common?
- Tamang is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tamang?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 1,639,866 people named Tamang in 2021, about 1 in 18 residents.
- How common is Tamang compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Tamang is the 411th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tamang?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamangThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tamang” — the 411th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.