Langa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from one of the places called Langa in Avila, Soria, and in particular Zaragoza provinces
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫɑŋɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Langa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MZMozambique≈1 in 331
- ESSpain1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 331 (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name for someone from one of the places called Langa in Avila, Soria, and in particular Zaragoza provinces.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Langa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | 5 | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | #216 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Langa | 58 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,847 | 1 in 27K | 1.8K | Langa | 27 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,370 | 1 in 28K | 696 | Langa | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,301 | 1 in 163K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 3 | — | — |
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: 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Langa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Sun.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Basque, ‘crossbeam’, ‘bar’ (on a window), ‘rustic gate’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Xhosa, An Nguni clan name meaning "sun".
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
In Icelandic, to cause to want, to make feel like [with accusative ‘someone’, along with í (+ accusative) ‘something’ or að (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’] (idiomatically translated as "want, feel like" with the accusative object as the subject)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to toss, to sling (throw with a swinging motion)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Constantin Langab. 1829RORomanian military officer
- Julio Duarte Langab. 1927MZMozambican Roman Catholic priest cardinal (1927–2026)
- Pius Langab. 1939ZASouth African judge and activist (1939–2013)
- Bheki Winston Joshua Langab. 1952ZASouth African politician
- Fátima Langab. 1953MZMozambican writer
- Ramón Langab. 1959ESSpanish actor and voice actor
- Concepción Langa Nuñob. 1968ESSpanish historian
- Bruno Langab. 1997MZMozambican footballer
- Miguel Langa PardosESSpanish politician
- Constantin Langa-RășcanuRORomanian diplomat
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,586 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,586 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,276 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 696 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 696 | #4,471 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 674 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 674 | #4,738 |
| MZ Mozambique | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 5 | #4 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 3 | #92 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Langa mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from one of the places called Langa in Avila, Soria, and in particular Zaragoza provinces. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Langa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɑŋɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Langa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Langa in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Langa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,847 people named Langa, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Langa compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Langa is the 216th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Langa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/langaThe 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, “Langa” — the 216th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.