Stanga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstɑŋɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stanga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Lombardic stanga.
- USUnited States1 in 869K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 26K
- AOAngola≈1 in 56K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈820 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Lombardic stanga.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stanga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Stanga | 6 |
| AO Angola | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Stanga | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 137K | listed | Stanga | 17 |
| US United States | 383 | 1 in 869K | 383 | Stanga | 158 |
| BR Brazil | 337 | 1 in 628K | 337 | Stanga | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | 76 | 1 in 111K | 76 | Stanga | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 23 | 1 in 147K | 23 | Stanga | 3 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Stanga 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 Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of stang
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite genitive plural of stöng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, bar, shaft, slat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Stieņveida priekšmets
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Staņģulis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Knaibles
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Gianluigi Stangab. 1949ITmanager from Italy
- Francesca Stangab. 1997CHSwiss 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 383 | #57,414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 383 | #53,913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 363 | #53,420 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 337 | #24,012 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 76 | #13,619 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 23 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Stanga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Lombardic stanga. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Stanga?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɑŋɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stanga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 817 people named Stanga in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stanga.
- How common is the name Stanga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 383 people named Stanga in 2010, about 1 in 869 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stangaThe 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, “Stanga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.