Gange
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of uncertain derivation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gange is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 499K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 101K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
of uncertain derivation. It may be a habitational name, perhaps from a place called Ganges in southern France. This is recorded in the 12th century as Agange and Aganthicum, perhaps from a derivative of Latin acanthus ‘bear’s-foot’. On the other hand, it may be from the Old Norse personal name Gangi, a cognate of Old English Gegn.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gange 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Gange | 28 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 391K | — | Gange | 4 |
| US United States | 666 | 1 in 499K | 666 | Gange | 182 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Gange | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 268K | listed | Gange | 83 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Gange | 61 |
| NO Norway | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | — |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Gange 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.
from Middle High German genge ‘common’, ‘circulating (among the people)’, ‘sprightly’, hence an occupational name for a hawker or peddler; perhaps also a nickname for an energetic person (see Genge 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short form of the personal names Wolfgang or Gangulf, both formed with Old High German gang- ‘gait’, ‘walk’ (+ -wolf ‘wolf’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, habitation name, perhaps from Ganges in S France. This is recorded in the 12th cent, as Agange and Aganthicum, per¬ haps from a deriv. of L acanthus bear’s-foot. On the other hand, it may be from the ON personal name Gangi, a cogn. of OE Gegn (see Gainsborough). A family of this name trace their descent from Ralph de Gangi, recorded in 1165. The name was later found as Gangus and Gangy.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A surname from Norman.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, variante de Gangi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Thomas Gangeb. 1891GBcricketer (1891-1947)
- Françoise Gangeb. 1944FRFrench philosopher
- Eva Klerck Gangeb. 1961NONorwegian curator and author
- David Gangeb. 1981GBBritish historian and nature writer
- Alan C. GangeGBbiologist
- Stephen GangeUSAmerican epidemiologist and academic administrator
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 666 | #34,110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 649 | #36,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 635 | #33,830 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,896 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Gange come from?
- of uncertain derivation. It may be a habitational name, perhaps from a place called Ganges in southern France. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gange mean?
- Recorded meaning: of uncertain derivation.
- In which country does Gange have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Gange in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gange.
- How common is the name Gange?
- In the United States, the national register counted 666 people named Gange in 2010, about 1 in 499 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gangeThe 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, “Gange”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.