Teng (鄧)
A Taiwanese surname.
鄧 Teng
- Zhuyin
- ㄉㄥˋ
- Pinyin
- dèng
- Wade-Giles
- Teng
- Further spellings of 鄧
- Deng
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Tīng
- Hakka (Sixian)
- ten⁵⁵
- Rank in Taiwan
- 54th most common surname, roughly 0.27% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
The name of an ancient state that lay in present-day Henan.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the state of Deng (鄧) near present-day Dengzhou, Henan, established under the Shang king Wu Ding; once Chu conquered it, its people took the state's name. Hall name (堂號): 南陽堂.
Saying it 我姓鄧 — wǒ xìng dèng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄥˋ), "my family name is 鄧"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).