Teong
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Teong is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 166◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 237
- THThailand1 in 102K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.6K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 66 ●
- 1 in 35K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
779K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Thaung in MM Myanmar (Burma), SE Sweden, CA Canada, ตวง in TH Thailand and Tuang in IN India.
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 | #10 | 392,382 | 392K rec. | — | — | Teong | 66 |
| ID Indonesia | #30 | 382,683 | 383K rec. | — | — | Teong | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,452 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 229K | 1.5K | Teong | 56 |
| TH Thailand | — | 1,362 | 378 rec. | — | 6 | ตวง | 35 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | 735 | 244 rec. | — | listed | Thaung | 45 |
| SG Singapore | — | 328 | 550 rec. | — | — | Teong | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | 290 | 430 rec. | — | 1 | Teong | 36 |
| SE Sweden | — | 101△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 101K | 101 | Thaung | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 72 | 108 rec. | — | — | Teong | 13 |
| PH Philippines | — | 48 | 135 rec. | — | — | Teong | 5 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 45 | 3 rec. | — | listed | Teong | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 34 | 60 rec. | — | — | Thaung | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian383K49%
- Malay371K48%
- Thai8.4K1%
- Portuguese8K1%
- English4.6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 383,054 | 49% |
| Malay | 371,460 | 48% |
| Thai | 8,445 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 8,027 | 1% |
| English | 4,626 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #72,317 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Teong?
- We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Teong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Teong have the most bearers?
- Teong is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled teong.
- How common is Teong compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Teong is the 10th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Teong a male or female name?
- Teong 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teongThe 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, “Teong” — the 10th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.