Kang
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kang has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1983, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% girls, 29% boys all-time.
Babies named Kang, 1995
1 in 732,000
Kang 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kang over time
In 2012, Kang went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kang?
Kang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,660,254 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,420 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kang sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kangs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kang was born before 1988 — so the typical Kang is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 68.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 68.5% of all recorded uses (74).
Is Kang 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 1983 (18)
- Years since peak
- 42
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kang
Kang is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 23.9% against Kang's <0.01%.
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 Kang is used
Across 1910–2025, Kang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,116,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Minnesota1 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. Kang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kang around the world
Where Kang 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 & Wales2006–2009#4,527in 2009
- South Australia2006–2006#657in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kang by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kang
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kang
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.