Länge

surname · Latin script

Meaning: length

Länge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 865(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.8K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.4K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈93,000 people, est.

Sources
459 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 153 (inferred from the name graph)

Greenland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lange in US United States, DE Germany, ZA South Africa and 4 more.

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)

length

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Länge 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 Länge is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#24≈93,000 est.≈1 in 865listedLange258
US United States#99830,9841 in 11K31KLange459
ZA South Africa#263≈23,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Lange87
PL Poland—5,8261 in 6.6K3KLange4
BR Brazil—5,0961 in 42K5.1K—3
DK Denmark#1383,3171 in 1.8K3.3KLange130
NO Norway#5032,0721 in 2.6K2.1KLange54
GL Greenland#413761 in 153376Lange7

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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)

Länge is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Lange, L'Ange, Langé, L-Ange, L'Änge

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Langè, Lange, Langé

  • Spanish surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lange, Langé, L'Âñge, Langè, L'Añgė

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)

Länge is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, a long time, during a long time, long

    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)

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

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 Länge mean, and where does it come from?
length Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
What are other forms of the name Länge?
In the etymology graph, Längst is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Länge have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 93 thousand people named Länge in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lange.
Where is Länge most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Länge is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 153 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Länge?
In the United States, the national register counted 30,984 people named Länge in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Länge compared with other names?
In Germany, Länge is the 24th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Länge” — the 24th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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