Zange
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a pair of pincers, pliers, tongs, forceps (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/ˈtsaŋə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Zange is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 160Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 823K
- CZCzechia1 in 892K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zange
- German:/ˈtsaŋə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a pair of pincers, pliers, tongs, forceps
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zange is found
(measured from records)Zange 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Zange | 56 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 549K | — | Zange | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Zange | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 679K | — | Zange | 1 |
| US United States | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Zange | 61 |
| AT Austria | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Zange | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 21 | 1 in 823K | 21 | Zange | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Zange 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 German, Indirekter Berufsname des Schmiedes, der Zangen herstellt oder benutzt; 247 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Nikolaus Zangiusb. 1570DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer
- Gabi Zangeb. 1961DEGerman speed skater
- Julia Zangeb. 1983DEGerman writer
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zange mean, and where does it come from?
- a pair of pincers, pliers, tongs, forceps Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Zange?
- In the etymology graph, Tong is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zange?
- In German /ˈtsaŋə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zange?
- Mondonomo estimates about 514 people named Zange in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zange. After it come Nigeria, South Africa, Congo - Kinshasa and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zange?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21 people named Zange in 2007, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zangeThe 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, “Zange”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.