Dayang
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dayang is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: lady-in-waiting.
- MYMalaysia1 in 2.5K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 25K
- IDIndonesia1 in 52K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 61 ●
- 1 in 19M ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
6 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tayong in PH Philippines, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 5 more, Taying in IN India, ตาหยง in TH Thailand and 다양 in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
lady-in-waiting
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #139 | 25,849 | 20K rec. | — | — | Dayang | 55 |
| PH Philippines | — | 8,731 | 8.9K rec. | — | — | Tayong | 37 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,748 | 493 rec. | — | — | Dayang | 61 |
| IN India | — | 1,607 | 512 rec. | — | 549 | Taying | 10 |
| TH Thailand | — | 1,052 | 558 rec. | — | #215,879 | ตาหยง | 28 |
| US United States | — | 731 | 808 rec. | — | listed | Tayong | 55 |
| AU Australia | — | 120 | 123 rec. | — | — | Dayang | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | 107 | 90 rec. | — | — | Dayang | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 62 | 61 rec. | — | — | Tayong | 14 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 44 | 139 rec. | — | — | Tayong | 15 |
| KR South Korea | — | 34 | 340 rec. | — | — | 다양 | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 29 | 47 rec. | — | — | Dayang | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian13K42%
- Malay7K22%
- English6.1K19%
- Chinese1K3%
- Spanish7202%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 13,392 | 42% |
| Malay | 7,034 | 22% |
| English | 6,096 | 19% |
| Chinese | 1,034 | 3% |
| Spanish | 720 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dayang is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, title of a noble lady in most of precolonial Philippines
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, brassy chub (Kyphosus vaigiensis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, damsel, maid of honour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, lady
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dayang?
- We estimate roughly 2 people bear Dayang (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Dayang have the most bearers?
- Dayang is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled dayang.
- How common is Dayang compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Dayang is the 139th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Dayang a male or female name?
- Dayang is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Dayang mean?
- Recorded meaning: lady-in-waiting
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Dayang” — the 139th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.