# Strang (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/strang/  
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) | 4,341 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,652 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 71,123 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.9% (4,381 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Strang 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Strang in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Strang

- Gilbert Strang, American mathematician
- James Strang, American Mormon leader (1813–1856)
- William Strang, British artist and printmaker (1859–1921)

## Similar surnames

Strong, Strunk, Stern, Stringer, Strange, Stearns, Starnes, Strand, Strain, Strawn, Stringfellow, Sternberg.

## 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.