Tengan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of tener:
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tengan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 664K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 77K
- GHGhana≈1 in 123K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
501 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of tener:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tengan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 501 | 1 in 664K | 504 | Tengan | 134 |
| AO Angola | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Tengan | 1 |
| GH Ghana | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Tengan | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 226 | 1 in 937K | 226 | — | 3 |
| PE Peru | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Tengan | 8 |
501 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Tengan 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 ang, to press, harry
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)
- Daisuke Tenganb. 1959JPJapanese screenwriter and film director (1959-)
- Eduardo TenganUSPh.D. Emory University 2006
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 504 | #40,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 501 | #43,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 439 | #51,280 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 226 | #33,229 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tengan mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of tener: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tengan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 501 people named Tengan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tengan.
- How common is the name Tengan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 501 people named Tengan in 2010, about 1 in 664 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tengan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tenganThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Tengan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.