Stång
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Stång is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English stang, stong, from Old English stæng, steng (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *stangi; reinforced by Old Norse stǫng; both from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *s.
- NONorway1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 29K
- DKDenmark1 in 75K
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)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,505 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
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 Stang in US United States, FI Finland.
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(measured from records)
- Old Englishstæng“pole“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*stangi(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*stangiz“bar“bar, rod”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*stengʰ-“to stick“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”(measured from records)
From Middle English stang, stong, from Old English stæng, steng (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *stangi; reinforced by Old Norse stǫng; both from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stång 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.
3,505 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Stång is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, pole; a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 191 | #7,751 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 52 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stång mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English stang, stong, from Old English stæng, steng (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *stangi; reinforced by Old Norse stǫng; both from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *s… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Stång have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Stång, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stang.
- Where is Stång most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stång is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stång?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,505 people named Stång in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%A5ngThe 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, “Stång”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.