Hang
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hang has been given to 382 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1984, with 45 recorded.
Babies named Hang, 2007
1 in 800,000
Hang over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hang?
Hang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hang sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hangs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hang was born before 1984 — so the typical Hang is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 66.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 382
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 66.8% of all recorded uses (255).
Is Hang 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
- —
- 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 1984 (45)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Spellings of Hang
Hang is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 30.6% against Hang's 0.02%.
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 Hang is used
Across 1910–2025, Hang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 236,459 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Kansas1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Hang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hang around the world
Where Hang 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 & Wales1997–1997#3,174in 1997
- Canada1991–1994#1,986in 1994
- South Australia1989–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hang by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hang
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hang
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.