Tanguay
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtænɡeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tanguay is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tanguay is read(measured from records)
Tanguay is one spelling over 2 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.
- English75%
A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French15%
altération du nom breton Tanguy (tan ‘feu’ + ki ‘chien’), surnom de guerrier.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cyprien Tanguayb. 1819CACanadian historian and Catholic priest (1819–1902)
- Georges-Émile Tanguayb. 1858CAarchitect
- Eva Tanguayb. 1878CACanadian singer and film actor
- Georges-Émile Tanguayb. 1893CACanadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator (1893–1964)
- Bill Tanguayb. 1909USAmerican football player (1909-1971)
- Daniel Tanguayb. 1960CACanadian philosopher
- Alex Tanguayb. 1979CACanadian ice hockey player
- Maxime Tanguayb. 1988CACanadian ice hockey player
- Simon Tanguayb. 1993CAice dancer
- John Tanguayb. 1998USAmerican rower
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,137 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,343 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 29 | #71,549 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #168,340 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Tanguay mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tanguay?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtænɡeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tanguay have the most bearers?
- Tanguay is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Tanguay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.