How common is the surname Stanger?

3,688 people in the United States had the surname Stanger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,716 Americans. It ranked 8,878th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Stanger?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Stanger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Stanger getting more or less common?

More common. 3,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,688 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Stanger

A German occupational surname, carried by 3,688 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S352

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stanger is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Various origins: * English surname, probably derived from Middle English stang (“pole”) and possibly being a topographic surname fro someone who lived by a pole or stake * Orcadian habitational surname, from a minor place called Stanagar, in the parish of Stromness. * Borrowed from German Stanger, an occupational surname for a maker of shafts.

Stanger is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,688 people named Stanger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,716 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,281.

#8,878

rank among US surnames

3,688

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+12.4%

change since 2000 (was #9,140)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,872	Phares	3,691	83,648
#8,873	Gailey	3,690	83,671
#8,875	Laflamme	3,689	83,694
#8,878	Stanger	3,688	83,716
#8,882	Geddes	3,687	83,739
#8,885	Hollon	3,686	83,762

Who is named Stanger

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Stanger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stanger

Stanger has the Soundex code S352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S352.

Other German surnames

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Questions

Where does the surname Stanger come from?: Various origins: * English surname, probably derived from Middle English stang (“pole”) and possibly being a topographic surname fro someone who lived by a pole or stake * Orcadian habitational surname, from a minor place called Stanagar, in the parish of Stromness. * Borrowed from German Stanger,…
How common is the surname Stanger?: 3,688 people in the United States had the surname Stanger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,716 Americans. It ranked 8,878th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stanger?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Stanger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Stanger?: Stanger is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Stanger getting more or less common?: More common. 3,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,688 in 2010, up 12%.