Teck

given name · Malay · Latin script

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

Teck is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Slavic PN Tèk.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 200◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 2.3K
  • SGSingapore1 in 4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.8K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
106 ●

61K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.9K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

TekLatin · Urdu●230K records
เต็กThai · Thai●340 records
টেকBengali · Bangla●8 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tek in PK Pakistan, IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, เต็ก in TH Thailand and Teik in NL Netherlands.

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●

Derivation of Teck: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Teck
  1. Slavic PNTèk●
  2. Ottoman Turkishتكtek“unique; alone”◐via Tèk

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

from Slavic PN Tèk

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Teck is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan—229,6845 rec.——Tek7
MY Malaysia#12927,83932K rec.——Teck91
SG Singapore#2372,6843.2K rec.——Teck92
US United States—1,1355.7K rec.1 in 293K1.1KTeck106
IN India—1,07113K rec.—2.4KTek64
ID Indonesia—6451K rec.—listedTeck24
TH Thailand—626692 rec.—#752,860เต็ก37
AL Albania—311—1 in 9.9K311——
VN Vietnam—2588 rec.——Teck11
GB United Kingdom—205437 rec.—listedTeck31
PH Philippines—185198 rec.——Teck11
NL Netherlands—179131 rec.1 in 97K179Teik7

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

Languages●

  • Malay19K43%
  • English15K33%
  • English (Singapore)3.3K7%
  • Indonesian1.8K4%
  • Chinese7672%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Malay18,85443%
English14,62533%
English (Singapore)3,2967%
Indonesian1,7544%
Chinese7672%

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◐

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

  • Korean given name434 records spelled Teck4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, United States

    Also written 테크, Theck, Tech

47 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.

Other recorded senses●

Teck 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 German, sl. PN. Tèk. Tick Ted-: s. DIET

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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●

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 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Teck
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008308#5,355
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—263#6,642
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010217#86,005
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020209#93,963
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000201#86,341
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202095#52,287
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—35#134,170
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#23,534
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#22,070
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198116—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013#52,287
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19917—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 28 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Teck?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Teck (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Teck have the most bearers?
Teck is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled tek.
How common is Teck compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Teck is the 129th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
Is Teck a male or female name?
Teck is a male 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 Teck mean?
Recorded meaning: from Slavic PN Tèk
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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, “Teck” — the 129th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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