Stang
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Stang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In English, recorded as A forked ritual staff.
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 95K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A forked ritual staff.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Stang is read(measured from records)
Stang is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English65%
A forked ritual staff.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German12%
Nachname aus persönlichem Merkmal: lang und dünn wie eine Stange.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Spanish8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stang in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Stang | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Stang | 114 |
| US United States | — | 3,505 | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | Stang | 277 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,302 | 1 in 4.2K | 1.3K | Stang | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Stang | 111 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Stang | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 78 | 1 in 75K | 78 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | #585 | — | — | — | Stang | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Stang is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, first/third-person singular preterite indicative of stingan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, bar (of metal, wood, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, past indicative of stinga
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)
- Frederik Stangb. 1802NO1st Prime Minister of Norway (1802–1884)
- Emil Stangb. 1834NO5th Prime Minister of Norway (1834–1912)
- Fredrik Stangb. 1867NONorwegian politician (1867-1941)
- Augusta Stangb. 1869NONorwegian politician, journalist and translator
- Emil Stangb. 1882NONorwegian politician and judge (1882-1964)
- Christian Schweigaard Stangb. 1900NONorwegian linguist (1900–1977)
- Wenche Fossb. 1917NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian diva, actress, singer, recording artist (1917–2011)
- Arnold Stangb. 1918USAmerican actor (1918–2009)
- Dorothy Stangb. 1931USBrazilian activist (1931–2005)
- Fabian Stangb. 1955NONorwegian politician, Mayor of Oslo 2007-2015
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Stang mean, and where does it come from?
- A forked ritual staff. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Stang?
- In the etymology graph, Stange is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Stang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Stang in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stang.
- Where is Stang most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stang is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,505 people named Stang in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Stang compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Stang is the 585th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Stang?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stangThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Stang” — the 585th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.