Tanger Family History
Tanger Name Meaning
Northern German: from the Tanger river or a habitational name
from any of several places so named in Brandenburg and
Pomerania.North German: nickname for a waspish person, from
Middle Low German tanger ‘strong’, ‘fresh’, ‘biting’, ‘sharp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tanger
Name Distribution of Tanger Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tanger families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tanger families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Tanger last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tanger census records
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Tanger Family Origin
Tanger Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Tanger
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Tanger Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tanger census records
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Tanger Civil War Service Records
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