The Taing surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,350 people carried this name — #13,065 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 125,000 people counted. That is up 37% from 1,718 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Taing surname
From Khmer តាំង (tang).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Taing» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 130 people named Taing.
Most of them — 118 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Paris.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
73 people named Taing live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Taing.
- Tahiri 239 · U.S. census
- Taibi 429 · U.S. census
- Taiclet 186 · U.S. census
- Taillefer 204 · U.S. census
- Taillon 673 · U.S. census
- Tain 166 · U.S. census
- Takacs 3,135 · U.S. census
- Talarczyk 164 · U.S. census
- Talarico 2,691 · U.S. census
- Talavera 7,777 · U.S. census
- Talbot 15,562 · U.S. census
- Taleb 507 · U.S. census
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