Stranger Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Search old registers for Stranger and you will soon meet Strang too. Read literally, Stranger points to “Someone with great physical power, a strong man”.

Stranger and Strang

Stranger adds -er to the root of Strang, a common way of forming related surnames. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Surname statistics

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Stranger with 356 bearers, at rank 57,234. Names that sound alike, such as Stringer, are easily confused in old records.

Heraldry and the Stranger name

There is no single Stranger family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Get the complete Stranger report, with a museum-style coat of arms.