Làng

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Làng is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.6K
  • FIFinland1 in 2.5K

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)

61,529 people, 2010

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lang in US United States, CH Switzerland.

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)

Derivation of Làng: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Làng
  1. Middle High Germanlanc(measured from records)
  2. Old High Germanlang(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*lang(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*langaz(measured from records)

From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

Sources 9

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Làng 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.

Where Làng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States61,5291 in 5.4K62KLang72
BR Brazil5,4581 in 39K5.5K—1
CH Switzerland5,2771 in 1.6K5.3KLang9
FI Finland2,2221 in 2.5K2.2K—3
CZ Czechia1,8021 in 5.9K1.8K——
DK Denmark8571 in 6.8K857—1

61,529 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Làng is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lang, Laeng, Läng, Láng, Lång

  • Hungarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Lang, Láng, Lång, Lặng, Lăng

  • French surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Lang, Läng, Láng, Lång, Lǎng

  • a separate name12 spellings in the group

    Also written Lảng, Lắng, Lẵng, Láng, Lang

  • Spanish surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lang, Lång, Láng, Läng, Låñg

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Làng is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埌

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kix, To wrestle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In aem, village

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Làng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Làng mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 7 other sources.
In which country does Làng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Làng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lang.
Where is Làng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Làng is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Làng?
In the United States, the national register counted 61,529 people named Làng in 2010, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.

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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, “Làng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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