Given name & surname
Dang
“one who is praiseworthy”
Dang is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is praiseworthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is praiseworthy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 316
- 310 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,816 as a first name in 2020; 36,719 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dang’s family of names
In French usage, Dang as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Đặng.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dang
- Dang QiuGerman table tennis playerborn 1996
- Han DangChinese military general (died 227)150–227
- Đặng Trần CônVietnamese writer1710–1745
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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