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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