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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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