Šango
surname · Latin script
Šango is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 20K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
227 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šango counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 425 | — | 7 |
| HR Croatia | 210 | 1 in 20K | 210 | Šango | 17 |
| ES Spain | 132 | 1 in 379K | 132 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 92 | 1 in 2.3M | 92 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 42 | 1 in 1.8K | 42 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
227 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Šango is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Rietumāfrikā mītošo jorubu mitoloģijā - dievišķas izcelsmes pirmais valdnieks, viens no nozīmīgākajiem dieviem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 210 | #4,001 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 187 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Šango have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 227 people named Šango, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Šango most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šango is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šango?
- In the United States, the national register counted 227 people named Šango in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Šango?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1angoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šango”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.