Vang

56,261 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vang in the 2020 census, making it the 582nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,313.

By the numbers

People: 56,261
Rank: 582nd
How common: 1 in 5,313
Per 100,000: 18.8

Where the name comes from

As a gmq surname, from derivatives of Old Norse vangr (“field”) (such as modern Swedish vång).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.4%
White, not Hispanic 1.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Vang

Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916–1959)Danish illustrator active mainly in Sweden
Bee Vang (born 1991)American actor

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

Surnames like Vang

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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.