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Teng

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Teng has been given to 354 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Teng, 2008

1 in 786,000

Teng over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teng: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teng means

Teng is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Teng is used in Sakizaya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Teng is pronounced /təŋ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 354 boys were recorded with the name Teng between 1980 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,245 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Teng?

Teng had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 408,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teng sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teng. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tengs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teng was born before 1989 — so the typical Teng is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
51.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
354
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Teng rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (34)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,245
1992

Spellings of Teng

Teng is not the most common spelling — Tony is, with 30.2% against Teng's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Teng is used

Across 1910–2025, Teng was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 119,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Teng has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Teng around the world

Where Teng ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1981–1996
    #3,266
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1989–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Teng by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,245
1992
Peak year
1992
34 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
354
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teng

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Teng

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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