The Trang surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,236 people carried this name — #13,564 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 131,600 people counted. That is up 18% from 1,898 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Trang surname
A surname from Vietnamese.
Borrowed from Vietnamese Trang.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Trang» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 63 people named Trang.
Most of them — 57 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 6 départements, most often Ille-et-Vilaine.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
23 people named Trang live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
123 people named Trang is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
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).
In print
Trang in American newspapers,
1869–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 17,896 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Trang,
with a public archive behind them.
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Maj Trang Olson 1956– · visual artist -
Thuy Trang 1973–2001 · actor -
Lê Phương 1985– · actor -
Tai Trang 1964– · gardener
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Trang.
- Traini 237 · U.S. census
- Tramont 104 · U.S. census
- Tramontin 137 · U.S. census
- Tran 188,498 · U.S. census
- Tranchida 236 · U.S. census
- Tranel 226 · U.S. census
- Trani 759 · U.S. census
- Transon 102 · U.S. census
- Traore 1,973 · U.S. census
- Trapani 2,586 · U.S. census
- Trapp 9,294 · U.S. census
- Trappier 148 · U.S. census
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