Sanger

3,462 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sanger in the 2020 census, making it the 9,063rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 86,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,462
Rank: 9,063rd
How common: 1 in 86,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

An occupational surname from Middle English, from Old English sangere (“singer”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Sanger

Frederick Sanger (1918–2013)British biochemist
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966)American birth control activist and nurse
Eugen Sänger (1905–1964)Austrian aerospace engineer

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

Surnames like Sanger

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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.