Zanger
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zanger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: southern German form related to Zange or 'biter, quarrelsome'.
- DEGermany≈1 in 85K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 527K
- ATAustria≈1 in 109K
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 Zanger 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 named Zaenger, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zaenger in BZ Belize, CN China.
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)
southern German form related to Zange or 'biter, quarrelsome'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zanger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Zaenger | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Zanger | 64 |
| US United States | 631 | 1 in 527K | 682 | Zanger | 195 |
| FR France | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 818K | 5 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Zanger | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Zanger | 12 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Zaenger | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Zanger 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 Dutch, a singer, songster
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)
- Walter Zangerb. 1935USamerican-born Israeli author and tour guide
- Georg Zangerb. 1947ATAustrian lawyer
- Cornelia Zangerb. 1953DEGerman economist
- Meinhard Zangerb. 1955DEGerman director
- Ulrich M. Zangerb. 1955DEresearcher
- Ziggy Zangerb. 1958DEGerman actress
- Wolfgang Zangerb. 1968ATAustrian politician
- Juri Zangerb. 1999actor
- Dan Zangerb. 2000stock trader
- Anat ZangerILAssociate professor at the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 682 | #35,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 631 | #35,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 627 | #34,210 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zanger mean, and where does it come from?
- southern German form related to Zange or 'biter, quarrelsome' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Zanger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Zaenger in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zanger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 631 people named Zanger in 2010, about 1 in 527 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zanger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zangerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zanger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.