The surname Tseng
A surname, carried by 4,994 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T252
Origin
From the Wade–Giles romanization Tsêng¹ of Mandarin 曾 (Zēng).
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,994 people named Tseng in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 61,823 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,352.
Who is named Tseng
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Tseng identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 2.7% as two or more races and 1.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 95%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tseng has the Soundex code T252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T252.
Questions
- Where does the surname Tseng come from?
- From the Wade–Giles romanization Tsêng¹ of Mandarin 曾 (Zēng).
- How common is the surname Tseng?
- 4,994 people in the United States had the surname Tseng in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 61,823 Americans. It ranked 6,751st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tseng?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Tseng identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 2.7% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Tseng getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,352 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,994 in 2010, up 15%.