Harang
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʼaʁɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Harang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Dutch Hareng.
- NONorway1 in 25K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 109K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
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)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
226 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Dutch Hareng.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Harang 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 | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 254 | Harang | 14 |
| NO Norway | 220 | 1 in 25K | 220 | Harang | 16 |
| CZ Czechia | 98 | 1 in 109K | 98 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 135 | — | — |
226 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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Harang is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, barrier; block; obstacle; obstruction
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, bell (especially a church bell)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, harangue (tirade)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, spice, spiciness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In war, spiciness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, bell
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)
- Leiv Harangb. 1902NONorwegian physicist
- Jean-Baptiste Harangb. 1949FRFrench journalist
- Francis Harangb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Michel Harangb. 1958FRFrench politician
- Aaron Harangb. 1978USAmerican baseball 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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 254 | #80,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 227 | #78,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 226 | #83,226 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 220 | #7,181 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 190 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 176 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 175 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 164 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 158 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 146 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 135 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 126 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Harang mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Dutch Hareng. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Harang?
- A machine transcription gives /ʼaʁɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Harang have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 226 people named Harang, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harang.
- Where is Harang most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Harang is densest in Norway — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Harang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Harang in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harangThe 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, “Harang”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.