Given name & surname
Teng
“a well-known warrior”
Teng is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “a well-known warrior.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “a well-known warrior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teng through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 354
- 354 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 34 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 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 34 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,455 as a first name in 2020; 4,413 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.
Teng’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Teng as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Ting. Teng has a related form in Tenge. In Indonesian usage, Teng as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Thang.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Teng
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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