Tayong
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tayong is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- 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●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dayang in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, AU Australia and 11 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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●
- English4.9K57%
- Spanish2.1K24%
- Indonesian3404%
- Thai3364%
- Portuguese2583%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,947 | 57% |
| Spanish | 2,098 | 24% |
| Indonesian | 340 | 4% |
| Thai | 336 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 258 | 3% |
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●
Tayong is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, temporary suspension or delay (of work, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bno, eggplant
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #6,902 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2008 | 1 | #45,530 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tayong?
- We estimate roughly 2 people bear Tayong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Tayong have the most bearers?
- Tayong is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled dayang.
- How common is Tayong compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Tayong is the 139th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayongThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Tayong” — the 139th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.