Dang is a Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Indian and German surname. It thus has its sources from both Asiatic languages and Indo-European languages. The two branches are thought to be unrelated.

Vietnam

In Vietnam, the surname is spelled Đặng or Đăng but Đăng is very rare in Vietnamese. The name Đặng is transliterated as Deng

Deng (surname)

Deng is an East Asian surname. It is a transcription of 邓 or 鄧 . It is transliteted as Dèng in pinyin and Teng in Wade-Giles. In Cantonese, it is Dahng in Yale and Dang6 in Jyutping. In Minnan or Taiwanese, it is Tēng in Pe̍h-ōe-jī...

 in Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 and Deung in Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

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Notable people with the surname Đặng

• Dang Thi Minh Hanh (Minh Hạnh), Vietnamese fashion designer
• Dang Nhat Minh (Đặng Nhật Minh), Vietnamese film director
• Dang Ngoc Ngu (Đặng Ngọc Ngự), Vietnamese pilot
• Dang Van Ngu (Đặng Văn Ngữ), Vietnamese doctor and intellectual.
• Dang Phong
  Dang Phong
  Đặng Phong , born in Hà Tây province, Vietnam, is a historian specialized in Vietnam's economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He graduated from Hanoi University, Faculty of History, in 1960, National Economics University, Planning Faculty, in 1964 and Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of...
  
   (Đặng Phong), Vietnamese historian, specialized in Vietnam's economic history
• Dang Huu Phuc (Đặng Hữu Phúc), Vietnamese pianist and film score composer
• Dang Thai Son
  Dang Thai Son
  Đặng Thái Sơn is a Vietnamese pianist, winner at the Tenth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.-Musical career:...
  
   (Đặng Thái Sơn), Vietnamese pianist
• Dang Sy (Đặng Sỹ), officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
• Dang Than (Đặng Thân), Vietnamese bilingual poet, fiction writer and essayist
• Dang Thuy Tram
  Dang Thuy Tram
  Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese civilian doctor who worked as a battlefield surgeon for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War...
  
   (Đặng Thùy Trâm), Vietnamese doctor famous for her wartime diaries

Notable people with the surname Đăng

• Dang Van Quang (Đăng Văn Quang), officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam

China

Dang in Cantonese (Dang6 in Jyutping

Jyutping

Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...

) is transliterated as Dèng (Deng

Deng (surname)

Deng is an East Asian surname. It is a transcription of 邓 or 鄧 . It is transliteted as Dèng in pinyin and Teng in Wade-Giles. In Cantonese, it is Dahng in Yale and Dang6 in Jyutping. In Minnan or Taiwanese, it is Tēng in Pe̍h-ōe-jī...

) in pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

 and Đặng in Vietnamese.

Korea

Dang in Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

 is transliterated as Táng in pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

and Đường in Vietnamese.