Huong
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Huong has been given to 578 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1982, with 51 recorded.
Babies named Huong, 2011
1 in 732,000
Huong 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Huong?
Huong had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Huong sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Huong. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Huongs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Huong was born before 1984 — so the typical Huong is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 59.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 578
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 59.5% of all recorded uses (344).
Is Huong 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (51)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Spellings of Huong
Huong is not the most common spelling — Phuong is, with 43.5% against Huong's 24.3%.
Where Huong is used
Across 1910–2025, Huong was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 135,054 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
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. Huong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Huong around the world
Where Huong 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.
- France1962–1962#1,991in 1962
- Canada1992–1992#2,433in 1992
- South Australia1981–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Huong by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Huong
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Huong
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.