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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian (Swedish also Vång) : habitational or ornamental name from any of numerous farmsteads and other places so named, from Old Norse vangr ‘field’, ‘meadow’, Swedish vång. See also Wang.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Wang.
  • Laotian : unexplained.
  • Vietnamese : unexplained.

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