Lang

At the 2020 census, 59,955 Americans bore the surname Lang — 551st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,985.

By the numbers

People: 59,955
Rank: 551st
How common: 1 in 4,985
Per 100,000: 20.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lang described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 9.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Lang

Fritz Lang (1890–1976)Austrian filmmaker
Lang Lang (born 1982)Chinese pianist
Stephen Lang (born 1952)American actor
k.d. lang (born 1961)Canadian singer-songwriter
Andrew Lang (1844–1912)Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
Noa Lang (born 1999)Dutch association football player
Ádám Lang (born 1993)Hungarian association football player
Michael Lang (born 1991)Swiss footballer

People named Lang with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lang

Also a first name

Lang has been given to 555 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 1989. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.