Anga

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ancient name for Bihar, India

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/æŋɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Anga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 34K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 117K

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,300 people, est.

Sources
44 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

ancient name for Bihar, India

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anga 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 Anga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈1,300 est.≈1 in 162Klisted—3
IN India1,1311 in 1.2M1.1KAnga44
CI Côte d’Ivoire≈820 est.≈1 in 34K184——
PH Philippines≈390 est.≈1 in 277K—Anga4
US United States≈39 est.≈1 in 8.6M94Anga29
EE Estonia≈11 est.≈1 in 117K16——
SG Singapore≈5 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Anga2

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-stat-nimed 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anga is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Nigeria, United States, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Angae, Angä, ̃anga

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Cameroon, Philippines

    Also written Angã

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Brazil, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Añga, Angá, Angã, Angà

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, Kenya

    Also written Ang'A

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Angá

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Anga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Air, atmosphere.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • Kiss.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Filipino, open-mouthed; mouth agape (as if manifesting ignorance)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Nyanja, my, first-person singular possessive determiner.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Cebuano, the blue stream goby (Sicyopterus lagocephalus)

    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)

  • Dedryck Boyatab. 1990BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 1990)
  • Anga BartzenDEGerman association football 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)

Formalआदरणीय Anga जी,Respected Anga ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Anga जी,Hi Anga, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Anga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.8K#2,147
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.1K#4,997
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—184#2,281
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—16#7,113
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—15#7,400
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Anga mean, and where does it come from?
ancient name for Bihar, India Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Anga?
A machine transcription gives /æŋɡə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Anga have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Anga in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Anga?
In India, the national register counted 1,131 people named Anga, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Anga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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