# Bangs (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bangs/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,490 |
| US rank (2010) | 12,467 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 123,994 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.9% (2,421 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Variant of Banks.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bangs in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bangs in the United States.

## People named Bangs

- Lester Bangs, American music critic and journalist
- Outram Bangs, American ornithologist (1863–1932)
- John Kendrick Bangs, American author, editor and satirist (1862–1922)

## Similar surnames

Banks, Banegas, Baines, Bang, Bains, Baynes, Banas, Bank, Banos, Banes, Beans, Bunch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.