The Tang surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 25,446 people carried this name — #1,269 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 10,600 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
470 people named Tang live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 351 people named Tang live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 298 people named Tang.
Most of them — 280 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Wallis and Futuna.
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 print
Tang in American newspapers,
1900–1945.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 173,378 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Tang,
with a public archive behind them.
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Tang He 1326–1395 · military leader -
Tang Xianzu 1550–1616 · writer -
Johann Adam Schall von Bell 1592–1666 · astronomer -
Tang Bin 1627–1687 · politician -
Shouqian Tang 1856–1917 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 294 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tang.
- Tan 21,567 · U.S. census
- Tancredi 1,125 · U.S. census
- Tanda 151 · U.S. census
- Tande 300 · U.S. census
- Tandy 2,098 · U.S. census
- Tane 115 · U.S. census
- Tange 229 · U.S. census
- Tanghe 160 · U.S. census
- Tanguy 129 · U.S. census
- Tani 856 · U.S. census
- Tanis 2,215 · U.S. census
- Tanner 46,412 · U.S. census
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