Wange

Name: Wange: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
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Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname? No: the text says it is mostly an Übername to mhd./mnd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/ˈvaŋə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary

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

SESweden1 in 117K(measured from records)
NONorway1 in 171K
DEGermany≈1 in 270Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 55 (measured from records)
: 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Wange

German:/ˈvaŋə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Swahili:/wanɡe/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

Toponymic surname? No: the text says it is mostly an Übername to mhd./mnd. wange 'Wange, Backe' after a bodily feature; 150 tokens.

Cited for this meaning 1

Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Wange is found

Wange 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 Wange is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	≈310 est.	≈1 in 273K	—	Wange	40
US United States	≈90 est.	≈1 in 3.8M	—	Wange	55
SE Sweden	87	1 in 117K	87	Wange	12
PL Poland	49	1 in 781K	25	—	1
KE Kenya	≈36 est.	≈1 in 1.6M	—	Wange	7
NO Norway	32	1 in 171K	32	—	2
DK Denmark	7	1 in 838K	7	—	—

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 names spelled this way

Wange is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Swedish surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States
Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Also written Wånge, Waange
Spanish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Brazil
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Wånge
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Wånge

28 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

Wange is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In German, Toponymic surname from Wangen/Wange, a place name or landscape feature; from settlement names, incl. < SiedlungsN X / < ON X where noted. Bearer count: 1375.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, cheek
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, cheek (on the face)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, cheek, jaw
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

Nikolaus Alexis Svenssonb. 1871SEnot in their usual namebotanical collector (1871 - )

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

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Evidence

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Wange come from?: Toponymic surname? No: the text says it is mostly an Übername to mhd./mnd. wange 'Wange, Backe' after a bodily feature; 150 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
What are other forms of the name Wange?: In the etymology graph, Wang and Guancia are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Wange?: It depends on the language: in German /ˈvaŋə/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /wanɡe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What does the name Wange mean?: Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname? No: the text says it is mostly an Übername to mhd./mnd.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Wange?: Mondonomo estimates about 305 people named Wange in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wange. After it come United States, Sweden, Poland and Kenya; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Wange most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wange is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wange?: In Sweden, the national register counted 87 people named Wange, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.

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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 2026-10-13 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, “Wange”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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