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Dayang Dayang — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-yang /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Maiden"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Malay)

A name that means "maiden".

Dayang is from the Malay dayang — maiden, lady-in-waiting, princess (also a Bruneian royal title). Dayang is one of the Malay-Indonesian feminine honorific names — used historically across the Bruneian sultanate + the broader Malay archipelago to denote royal + noble feminine status. In Brunei, Dayang is the official honorific title for non-royal women (equivalent to Mrs.

Maiden / lady (Malay).

The name in its native script.

Dayang
Transliteration
Dayang
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑː.jɑːŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dayang stands.

Dayang does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dayangs before her.

Real people
Dayang Nurfaizah
Malaysian pop singer + Anugerah Juara Lagu winner.
born 1981
In fiction
Dayang
Malay maiden honorific.

Names connected to Dayang.

The number behind Dayang.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dayang reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.