Tang
At the 2020 census, 42,548 Americans bore the surname Tang — 794th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,025.
By the numbers
- People
- 42,548
- Rank
- 794th
- How common
- 1 in 7,025
- Per 100,000
- 14.2
Where the name comes from
Origin Mandarin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Tang described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Tang
- Emperor Taizong of Tang (598–649)Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty (598-649) (r. 626-649)
- Emperor Gaozu of Tang (566–635)Founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty (566-635) (r. 618–626)
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (685–767)7th emperor of the Tang dynasty, reigning from 713 to 756 CE
- Tang Wei (born 1979)Chinese actress
- Emperor Gaozong of Tang (628–683)Emperor of the Tang Dynasty (628-683) (r. 649-683)
- Audrey Tang (born 1981)Taiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer
- Emperor Ruizong of Tang (662–716)emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- Tang (1674 BC–1586 BC)Legendary first king of the Shang dynasty in ancient China
People named Tang with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Tang
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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.