The Stang surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,505 people carried this name — #9,286 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 84,000 people counted. That is up 7% from 3,262 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Stang surname
From the German and Jewish surname, from the noun Stange (“pole”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Stang» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 533 people named Stang live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Entre Ríos.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 61 people named Stang.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Finistère.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
751 people named Stang are counted in Norway, Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Stang in American newspapers,
1901–1907.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 14,319 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Stang.
- Stalter 2,417 · U.S. census
- Stamm 5,461 · U.S. census
- Stammler 141 · U.S. census
- Stamper 13,528 · U.S. census
- Standaert 266 · U.S. census
- Stanek 5,014 · U.S. census
- Stanislas 152 · U.S. census
- Stanislawski 909 · U.S. census
- Stankiewicz 2,780 · U.S. census
- Stanko 2,853 · U.S. census
- Stankovic 551 · U.S. census
- Stanojevic 197 · U.S. census
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