Teng

Romanization of Mandarin 鄧／邓 (Dèng) or Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng). Doublet of Dinh.

Teng (plural Tengs)

1. A surname from Chinese.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Teng is the 9473^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3433 individuals. Teng is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (92.98%) individuals.

Teng

1. Short for Teng County. (Tengzhou)
   • 1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily‎, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, OCLC 7199734, OL 9159758M, page 195:

     To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!”

   • 1995 September, Chen, Jianing (陈家宁); Yang Yang (杨阳), “The God of Boats and the God of Carts”, in 中国神话世界 [The World of Chinese Myths]‎, First edition, Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 502445416, page 159:

     After his death, Xi Zhong was buried twenty-five li (about twelve kilometres) to the south of Xuecheng in Shandong Province, where people could find his tomb. And where he tested his cart, sixty li (thirty kilometres) from Teng County in Shandong Province, it is said that for years after his death, people could still see the wheel tracks.

From Mandarin 藤 (Téng).

Teng

1. A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi, China.
   • 2022 March 23, Pollard, Martin Quin; Thomas Suen; Tony Munroe, “At China plane crash site, relatives wait in grim vigil”, in Alexandra Hudson, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 23 March 2022, China:

     Dozens of family members congregated at the heavily-secured checkpoint leading to the site in Teng county in southern China's Guangxi region in pairs or small groups on Wednesday.

• gent

Romanization of Hokkien 鄧／邓 (Tēng)

Teng

1. a Filipino-Chinese surname from Min Nan of Hokkien origin

• Tengco

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Teng is the 851st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 10,891 individuals.