LANgo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized form of Norwegian Langoy or Lango, habitational names from any of several farmsteads named Lang0y, from lang ‘long’ + 0y ‘island’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɫɑŋɡoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
LANgo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 687K(measured from records)
- VUVanuatu≈1 in 4.9K
- SISlovenia1 in 34K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vanuatu, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Langó in HU Hungary.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Americanized form of Norwegian Langoy or Lango, habitational names from any of several farmsteads named Lang0y, from lang ‘long’ + 0y ‘island’ .
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)LANgo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | LANgo | 7 |
| US United States | 484 | 1 in 687K | 551 | LANgo | 122 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | LANgo | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | LANgo | 5 |
| HU Hungary | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Langó | 24 |
| NO Norway | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | LANgo | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | 61 | 1 in 34K | 61 | — | 2 |
| VU Vanuatu | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list. 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)LANgo 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.
unexplained, possibly a variant of LangA.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swahili, gate, portal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, drunk; intoxicated
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bgs, fly (insect)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, tongue
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)- Troadi Langob. 1896EEEstonian military personnel (1896-1942)
- Dunja Langob. 1941RSSerbian tv host and actress (1941–2015)
- Tina LangoSISlovene association football player
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 551 | #42,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 505 | #40,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 484 | #44,423 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #18,534 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 61 | #6,613 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 LANgo mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of Norwegian Langoy or Lango, habitational names from any of several farmsteads named Lang0y, from lang ‘long’ + 0y ‘island’ . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce LANgo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɑŋɡoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does LANgo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 653 people named LANgo in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled LANgo.
- How common is the name LANgo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 484 people named LANgo in 2010, about 1 in 687 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/langoThe 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, “LANgo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.