Lang

Meaning of Lang

Lang occupies a singular niche in onomastic studies, straddling Sino-Germanic provenance and evoking a classical echo: on one hand it derives from Mandarin characters—郎 (láng, “gentleman; youth”) or 浪 (làng, “wave”)—and on the other from the Germanic adjective lang, cognate with Latin longus and ultimately traceable to the Proto-Indo-European root *dlongʰós (“long”). In the United States its incidence has remained modest yet remarkably consistent: Social Security data reveal that during the 1980s Lang experienced periodic upticks—eleven to thirteen annual registrations, with ranks in the 600–700 bracket—before tapering into single-digit occurrences since 2000, consistently settling beyond the 900th position (five to eight births per year in the past three seasons). As a male given name, Lang offers a monosyllabic sobriety that unfolds like a slender ribbon across linguistic boundaries, appealing to families in search of a concise, scholarly name imbued with cross-cultural resonance.

Pronunciation

English

• Pronunced as LANG (/læŋ/)

• Lane
• Landon
• Langston
• Latham
• Langford
• Langdon