The Eng surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,682 people carried this name — #3,352 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 27,600 people counted. That is up 6% from 10,102 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
491 people named Eng live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Solothurn.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 88 people named Eng.
Most of them — 51 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
2,109 people named Eng are counted in Sweden and Norway.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Eng in American newspapers,
1892–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,774,300 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Eng,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Eng d. 1907 · wrestler
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Anders Olsen Eng 1618–1700
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Birgitte Larsdatter Eng 1630–1670
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Peder Andersen Eng 1650–1721
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Mari Pedersdatter Eng 1697–1739
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Ingeborg Pedersdatter Eng 1704–1746
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Eng.
- Emond 2,346 · U.S. census
- Encinas 4,369 · U.S. census
- End 229 · U.S. census
- Enderle 1,986 · U.S. census
- Enderlin 310 · U.S. census
- Endres 5,163 · U.S. census
- Engasser 165 · U.S. census
- Engel 21,933 · U.S. census
- Engelbert 710 · U.S. census
- Engeldinger 276 · U.S. census
- Engelen 229 · U.S. census
- Engelhard 765 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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