Thang
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thang is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pronunciation spelling of thing, usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity.
- VNVietnam1 in 208◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 37K
- USUnited States1 in 56K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 186 ●
- 1 in 23K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
221K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled เต็ง in TH Thailand, เติ้ง in CN China and Teng in NZ New Zealand.
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●
Pronunciation spelling of thing, usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #37 | 408,741 | 197K rec. | — | listed | Thang | 186 |
| US United States | — | 5,991 | 17K rec. | 1 in 56K | 7.1K | Thang | 138 |
| TH Thailand | — | 2,174 | 2K rec. | — | #885,930 | เต็ง | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,709 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Thang | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | 829 | 943 rec. | — | — | Thang | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 601 | 660 rec. | — | listed | Thang | 23 |
| IN India | — | 200 | 245 rec. | — | 123 | Thang | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 178△ | 41 rec. | 1 in 57K | 178 | — | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | 172 | 296 rec. | — | — | Thang | 16 |
| CN China | — | 161 | 72 rec. | — | — | เติ้ง | 7 |
| RU Russia | — | 82 | 118 rec. | — | — | Thang | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 80 | 90 rec. | — | 1 | Thang | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese306K81%
- English37K10%
- 9.1K2%
- Spanish4.2K1%
- French1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 306,304 | 81% |
| English | 36,890 | 10% |
| 9,100 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 4,202 | 1% |
| French | 1,508 | 1% |
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●
Thang 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 Vietnamese, a ladder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lsi, Used to mark the preceding adjective as superlative: most
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 |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 14 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 15 |
| 1988 | 13 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 17 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 31 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 31 |
| 2016 | 44 |
| 2017 | 37 |
| 2018 | 35 |
| 2019 | 27 |
| 2020 | 42 |
| 2021 | 31 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 29 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 28 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tang Xianzub. 1550CNnot in their usual nameChinese playwright (1550-1616)
- Johann Adam Schall von Bellb. 1592DEnot in their usual nameGerman astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China (1592-1666)
- Tang Enbob. 1899TWnot in their usual nameChinese general (1899–1954)
- Thng Tek-chiongb. 1907TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese lawyer (1907–1947)
- Maxine Hong Kingstonb. 1940USnot in their usual nameChinese American author
- Tang Weib. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress (born 1979)
- Tang Jingzhib. 1986CNnot in their usual nameswimmer
- Tang Chih-Chunb. 2001TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese archer (2001-)
- Tang Jun-sangb. 2003KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 2003)
- Tang Muhanb. 2003CNnot in their usual nameChinese swimmer
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 35 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.1K | #4,810 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,854 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 695 | #236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 643 | #33,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 407 | #3,317 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 210 | #7,520 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 178 | #5,678 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 144 | #6,059 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 128 | #4,531 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 123 | #24,718 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 97 | #5,635 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 165 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Thang?
- We estimate roughly 6.4 thousand people bear Thang (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Thang have the most bearers?
- Thang is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thang.
- How common is Thang compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thang is the 37th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Thang a male or female name?
- Thang 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 Thang mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pronunciation spelling of thing, usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity.
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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.
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, “Thang” — the 37th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.