Tange

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Danish: a low and thin ness

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 54K
  • BEBelgium1 in 85K

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.

Denmark (measured from records)

595 people

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Tang

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Tange is read(measured from records)

Tange is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English26%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tange in English.

  • Japanese15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tange in Japanese.

  • Danish14%

    a low and thin ness

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

  • French14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tange in French.

  • German5.4%

    nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Tang

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

    Indirekter Berufsname des Schmiedes; auch Patronym oder Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname; 124 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tange 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 Tange is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#6225951 in 9.9K595Tange78
NL Netherlands—3231 in 54K323Tange12
US United States—2031 in 1.6M229Tange19
BE Belgium—1381 in 85K138Tange2
BR Brazil—1131 in 1.9M113——
NO Norway—441 in 124K44Tange12
SE Sweden—321 in 319K32Tange10

595 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tange is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Tangé, Tangè, Tàngé

38 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)

Tange is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of tonge (“tongs”)

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

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of tangō

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

  • In Italian, third-person singular present indicative of tangere

    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)

1850190019502000Ume Tange, b. 1873Kenzo Tange, b. 1913Kiyoko Tange, b. 1920Noritaka Tange, b. 1958Klaus Tange, b. 1962Sakura Tange, b. 1973Hiroki Tange, b. 1977Kenta Tange, b. 1978

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)

FormalDear Tange,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Tange
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—595#709
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007323#6,327
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000229#77,742
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010203#90,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020189#101,718
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008138#11,821
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—113#57,790
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—44#27,985
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—32#17,743
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Tange come from?
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Tang Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tange?
A machine transcription gives /ˈtændʒ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Tange mean?
In Danish, a low and thin ness
In which country does Tange have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 595 people named Tange, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tange.
Where is Tange most common?
Tange is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tange?
In Denmark, the national register counted 595 people named Tange, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
How common is Tange compared with other names?
In Denmark, Tange is the 622nd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tange” — the 622nd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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