Tànger
surname · Latin script
Tànger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Tanger, Morocco.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 166K
- HRCroatia1 in 384K
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)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 166K (inferred from the name graph)
230 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tanger in MA Morocco.
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)Tanger, Morocco
Cited for this meaning 2
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tànger 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 | 230 | 1 in 1.4M | 254 | — | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 104 | 1 in 166K | 104 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 62 | 1 in 3.4M | 62 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Tanger | 14 |
| HR Croatia | 11 | 1 in 384K | 11 | — | — |
230 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Tànger 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 Catalan, Tangier (a port city in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar)
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tànger mean, and where does it come from?
- Tanger, Morocco Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Tànger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 230 people named Tànger, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tànger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tànger is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 166 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tànger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 230 people named Tànger in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A0ngerThe 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, “Tànger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.