Lange

Lange is the 1,174th most common surname in the United States, shared by 29,442 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,200.

By the numbers

People: 29,442
Rank: 1,174th
How common: 1 in 10,200
Per 100,000: 9.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lange

Jessica Lange (born 1949)American actress
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965)American photojournalist
Christian Lous Lange (1869–1938)Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Artie Lange (born 1967)American comedian
Hope Lange (1933–2003)American actress
David Lange (1942–2005)Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989
Friedrich Albert Lange (1828–1875)German philosopher and sociologist
Oskar Lange (1904–1965)Polish economist

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

Surnames like Lange

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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.