Vanga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: » a mountain (P); a son of Bali (P); name of
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/vənɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vanga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 497K(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 101K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vanga itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
12,614 named Wing, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
» a mountain (P); a son of Bali (P); name of
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,614as Wing | 1 in 26K | 13K | Vanga | 123 |
| IN India | 2,667 | 1 in 497K | 2.7K | Vanga | 109 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Vanga | 6 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 258 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 220as Vange | 1 in 25K | 220 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 74as Wing | 1 in 69K | 74 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 70as Vange | 1 in 84K | 70 | — | — |
12,614 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling wing. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Vanga 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.
In English, Any of several passerine birds, of the family Vangidae, from Madagascar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, insectivorous bird
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In men, a war-drum in the shape of an hour- glass
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Latin, a spade with a crossbar for applying the foot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, hook-billed vanga (Vanga curvirostris)
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)
- Federico Wangab. 1200ILnot in their usual namePrince-Bishop of Trento
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.2K | #758 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.7K | #2,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 430 | #52,161 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 258 | #1,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #74,528 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Vanga mean, and where does it come from?
- » a mountain (P); a son of Bali (P); name of Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Vanga?
- A machine transcription gives /vənɡə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Vanga have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Wing, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vanga?
- In India, the national register counted 2,667 people named Vanga, about 1 in 497 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vangaThe 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, “Vanga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.