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Chang

Boys' name

Flourish, prosper, good, sunlight

Chang has been given to 312 babies in the U.S. since 1940. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Chang, 2006

1 in 659,000

Chang over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chang: meaning, origin, and history

Flourish, prosper, good, sunlight

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chang means

Chang means “flourish, prosper, good, sunlight”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chang is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ/ for Chang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 307 boys were recorded with the name Chang between 1940 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,288 in 1986.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Chang between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1982; its best national rank was #10,751 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Chang?

Chang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chang sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Changs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chang was born before 1989 — so the typical Chang is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
302
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Chang rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (16)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,288
1986

Spellings of Chang

Chang is not the most common spelling — Craig is, with 28.2% against Chang's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chang is used

Across 1910–2025, Chang was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 267,795 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chang around the world

Where Chang ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #638
    in 2010
  • France
    1984–1984
    #2,866
    in 1984
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,824
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chang by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,288
1986
Peak year
1994
16 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
307
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,751
1982
Peak year
1982
5 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chang

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Chang

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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