Štanger
surname · Latin script
Štanger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,688 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Various origins: * English surname, probably derived from Middle English stang (“pole”) and possibly being a topographic surname fro someone who lived by a pole or stake * Orcadian habitational surnam.
- NONorway1 in 37K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- UYUruguay1 in 69K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
3,688 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stanger in US United States.
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)- Middle Englishstang“pole”(measured from records)
- GermanStanger(measured from records)
Various origins: * English surname, probably derived from Middle English stang (“pole”) and possibly being a topographic surname fro someone who lived by a pole or stake * Orcadian habitational surname, from a minor place called Stanagar, in the parish of Stromness. * Borrowed from German Stanger, an occupational surname for a maker of shafts.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Štanger is found
(measured from records)Štanger 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 | 3,688 | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Stanger | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 434 | 1 in 488K | 434 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 146 | 1 in 37K | 146 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 62 | 1 in 136K | 62 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 49 | 1 in 69K | 49 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
3,688 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Štanger mean, and where does it come from?
- Various origins: * English surname, probably derived from Middle English stang (“pole”) and possibly being a topographic surname fro someone who lived by a pole or stake * Orcadian habitational surnam… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Štanger?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Štanger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stanger. After it come Brazil, Norway, Switzerland and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Štanger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Štanger is densest in Norway — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Štanger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,688 people named Štanger in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Štanger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1tangerThe 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, “Štanger” — ranked 8878th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.