Taying

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Taying is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Catalina.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 1 country

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
61 ●

32K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19M ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

DayangLatin · Indonesian●13K records
ตาหยงThai · Thai●360 records
다양Hangul · Korean●34 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dayang in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, AU Australia and 11 more, Tayong in PH Philippines, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 5 more, 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●

A diminutive of Catalina.

Sources 1

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Taying is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#13925,84920K rec.——Dayang55
PH Philippines—8,7318.9K rec.——Tayong37
ID Indonesia—1,748493 rec.——Dayang61
IN India—1,607512 rec.—549Taying10
TH Thailand—1,052558 rec.—#215,879ตาหยง28
US United States—731808 rec.—listedTayong55
AU Australia—120123 rec.——Dayang21
SG Singapore—10790 rec.——Dayang12
GB United Kingdom—6261 rec.——Tayong14
CM Cameroon—44139 rec.——Tayong15
KR South Korea—34340 rec.——다양12
NG Nigeria—2947 rec.——Dayang5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi1.5K68%
  • English27212%
  • Thai683%
  • Swahili603%
  • Spanish583%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi1,48568%
English27212%
Thai683%
Swahili603%
Spanish583%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Taying is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese name34 records spelled Taying2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ta-Ying

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence●

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Taying
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—632#183
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—549#8,590

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 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Taying?
We estimate roughly 2 people bear Taying (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Taying have the most bearers?
Taying is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled dayang.
How common is Taying compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Taying is the 139th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
What does the name Taying mean?
Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Catalina.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Taying” — the 139th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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