Ang
A surname with several possible origins, including a Chinese family name and a few separate European names that were anglicized as Ang.
The #9,525 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 90,462 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Ang is not a single straightforward surname in the historical record. In English-language sources, it can reflect several unrelated names: in some cases a shortened or altered form of a given name beginning with Ang-, and in others an anglicized spelling of surnames from continental Europe. Independently, Ang is also a well-established surname in several Chinese naming traditions, though the exact character and meaning vary by family line.
History
Because the form is very short, Ang has arisen in more than one place and language, which makes its family history especially hard to generalize. In English records it may appear as an adapted spelling rather than a long-standing native surname, while in Chinese and Southeast Asian communities it is often a regular inherited family name. The same spelling can therefore represent entirely different origins depending on the bearer.
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Fun fact
The same three-letter surname can come from completely different naming systems, so two people named Ang may not share any ancestral connection at all.
From the historical record
“NOURSE = Nurse, q.v. NOwfu!" I Ang''<:'2ed forms of Noel, q.v. NOWLAN, V. Nolan. NOYCE \ (A.-Fr.-Lat.) Dweller by a Nux- NOYES /Tree; spec, a Walnut-Tree [Fr.”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)