Given name & surname · also Italian
Tango
Tango is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Japanese. It is used in English and Italian.
Original Japanese丹後
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tango comes from Italian, and ultimately from Japanese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tango through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 0 boys · 33 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 1972. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 548 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tango’s family of names
In English usage, Tango as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 丹後.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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