Deng
surname · Chinese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Deng is a surname, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in Chinese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
- AUAustralia1 in 7K◐
- USUnited States1 in 37K
- CACanada1 in 44K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- Sources
- 274 ●
- 1 in 24K ◐
across 17 countries
55K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin●
A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #675 | 11,992 | 13K rec. | — | 5 | Deng | 147 |
| US United States | — | 8,898 | 33K rec. | 1 in 37K | 14K | Deng | 274 |
| CN China | — | 3,516 | 1.6K rec. | — | listed | Deng | 86 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,683 | 1.7K rec. | — | 5 | Deng | 97 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,354 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Deng | 72 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,226 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Deng | 75 |
| ES Spain | — | 420△ | 33 rec. | 1 in 119K | 420 | — | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 379 | 382 rec. | — | — | Deng | 31 |
| SG Singapore | — | 266 | 328 rec. | — | — | Deng | 44 |
| HK Hong Kong | #632 | 264 | 256 rec. | — | — | Deng | 34 |
| FI Finland | — | 233△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 24K | 233 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 210△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 26K | 210 | — | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Chinese48K34%
- English47K33%
- Swahili10K7%
- 8.3K6%
- Spanish5.3K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 47,591 | 34% |
| English | 46,581 | 33% |
| Swahili | 10,040 | 7% |
| 8,297 | 6% | |
| Spanish | 5,337 | 4% |
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●
Deng is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of dēng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In din, Dinka of South Sudan
as a nameAfrican Names
In och, to rise, ascend, mount, raise; to ripen; ritual vessel with high foot; high foot
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In Kurdish, Sound, voice, cry, powerful breath that speaks to the community
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Welsh, alternative form of deg (“ten”)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Deng Xiaopingb. 1904CNChinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
- Deng Yingchaob. 1904CNChinese politician (1904-1992)
- Trường Chinhb. 1907VNnot in their usual nameformer General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907–1988)
- Beulah Quob. 1923USnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress and activist
- Deng Pufangb. 1944CNson of Deng Xiaoping
- Dennis Dunb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Teresa Tengb. 1953TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese ROC singer (1953-1995)
- Wendi Murdochb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American businesswoman (1968-)
- Deng Yapingb. 1973CNChinese table tennis player
- Luol Dengb. 1985SSSouth Sudanese-British basketball player
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●
Attested in 53 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.9K | #3,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 762 | #13,226 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 420 | #9,184 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 420 | #9,160 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 233 | #11,571 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 210 | #7,479 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 191 | #4,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157 | #13,226 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 148 | #8,037 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 97 | #5,600 |
Reference works 4
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 210 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Deng?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Deng (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
- In which country does Deng have the most bearers?
- Deng is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled deng.
- How common is Deng compared with other names?
- In Australia, Deng is the 675th most common surname of 520,735 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Deng mean?
- Recorded meaning: A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Deng” — the 675th most common surname in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.