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The TANG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 25,446 1269 0.009 94
United States (1880 census) 111 29325 0 2
Change since 1880 +25335 +28056 +N/A +92
Other Countries
Australia 3,682 400 0.023 225
United Kingdom 3,194 1957 0.007 70
Top States for TANG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 10,013 306 0.030 296
New York 2,770 617 0.015 146
Texas 1,599 1593 0.008 77
New Jersey 1,029 865 0.012 122
Massachusetts 1,002 914 0.016 158
Top States for TANG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 10,013 306 0.030 296
Hawaii 260 330 0.021 215
Washington 1,001 708 0.017 170
Massachusetts 1,002 914 0.016 158
New York 2,770 617 0.015 146

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called TANG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called TANG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called TANG in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a TANG by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of TANG

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TANG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of TANG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 700 2.75
Mixed Race 646 2.54
White (Hispanic) 252 0.99
Black/African American 158 0.62
Asian/Pacific 23,675 93.04
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.06

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the TANG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of TANG in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of TANG.

Similar names to TANG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TANG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for TANG

The following words are slight variants of TANG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.