Láng
surname · Latin script
Meaning: flame, flare (the visible part of fire)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laːŋɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Láng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.6K
- FIFinland1 in 2.5K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
61,529 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lang in US United States, CH Switzerland, HU Hungary.
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)
flame, flare (the visible part of fire)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Láng 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 | — | 61,529 | 1 in 5.4K | 62K | Lang | 81 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,458 | 1 in 39K | 5.5K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,277 | 1 in 1.6K | 5.3K | Lang | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,222 | 1 in 2.5K | 2.2K | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,802 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.8K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 857 | 1 in 6.8K | 857 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | #199 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Lang | 102 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Láng is also recorded in 2 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 俍
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, smooth; glossy
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)
- Giuseppe Castiglioneb. 1688ITnot in their usual nameItalian monk, missionary and painter (1688-1766)
- Adolf Lángb. 1848HUHungarian architect (1848–1913)
- Lang Jingshanb. 1892TWChinese photojournalist (1892–1995)
- Sihung Lungb. 1930TWnot in their usual nameTaiwan actor (1930–2002)
- István Lángb. 1933HUHungarian composer (1933-2023)
- Larry Hsien Ping Langb. 1956TWChinese economist
- Lang Pingb. 1960CNChinese volleyball player and coach
- Lang Tzu-yunb. 1965TWTaiwanese actress
- Lang Yongchunb. 1971CNChinese television host
- Lang Jieb. 1994CNChinese Go 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)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #138,655 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Láng mean, and where does it come from?
- flame, flare (the visible part of fire) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Láng?
- A machine transcription gives /laːŋɡ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Láng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Láng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lang.
- Where is Láng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Láng 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 Láng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 61,529 people named Láng in 2010, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Láng compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Láng is the 199th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Láng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A1ngThe 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, “Láng” — the 199th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.