Daeng
given name · Latin script
Meaning: dated spelling of daing (“dried fish”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dˈaəŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Daeng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 3.8Kas แดง(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 444K
- FIFinland1 in 206Kas Deng
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Daeng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 named แดง, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled แดง in TH Thailand and Deng in CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dated spelling of daing (“dried fish”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Daeng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #753 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | #196,078 | แดง | 75 |
| US United States | — | 919as Deng | 1 in 362K | 14K | Daeng | 30 |
| CN China | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Deng | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 29as Deng | 1 in 7.3M | 73 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 27as Deng | 1 in 206K | 233 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23 | 1 in 444K | 191 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7as Deng | 1 in 838K | 97 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Daeng is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, a knot, to tie, a close connection, a close friendship, inseparable
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In mak, title for men and women, originally only for ruling and higher classes (anaʼ karaeng), later also for middle class (tumaradeka); the title is further defined by an adjective that often corresponds in meaning to the person's name
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, By to move, to excite, (déng-daeng)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a cave, a grotto, (hud-ding-sidk
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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(measured from records)
- Daeng Sanusi Daeng Mariokb. 1938MYMalaysian politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Daeng mean, and where does it come from?
- dated spelling of daing (“dried fish”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Daeng?
- A machine transcription gives /dˈaəŋ/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Daeng a male or female name?
- Daeng 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.
- In which country does Daeng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named แดง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Daeng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daeng is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 444 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Daeng?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 23 people named Daeng, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
- How common is Daeng compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Daeng is the 753rd most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Daeng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/daengThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Daeng” — the 753rd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.