Trang is a
Vietnamese surname
Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order.
* A family name (normally patrilineal, The father’s family name may be combined with the mother's family name to form a compound family name). ...
.
It was formerly written as both and in ''
Chữ Nho'', a script now almost entirely obsolete. The former is derived from the
Chinese surname Zhang Zhang may refer to:
Chinese culture, etc.
* Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname
** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname
* Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu
* Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan
* ''Zha ...
, the latter from
Zhuang.
There were 1,803 bearers during the year
2000 US Census
The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...
, ranking Trang 14,432nd overall and 544th among
Asian and Pacific Islanders
Asian/Pacific American (APA) or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) or Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) or Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) is a term sometimes used in the United States when including both Asian a ...
.
US Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureau is part of the ...
. 2000 US Census. Op. cit. Butler, Rhett.
Most Common Last Names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.
2008. Accessed 16 Apr 2012.
It is also a Scandinavian surname, primitively in Norway and Denmark; although there's a fairly small number of people bearing the last name in the mentioned countries. In these Nordic countries, its meaning is "narrow".
Vietnamese-language surnames
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