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Khang

#4,957 in 2025Boys' name

Peaceful, quiet, healthy

Khang has been given to 1,211 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #4,957 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Khang, 2025

1 in 166,000

Khang over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khang: meaning, origin, and history

Peaceful, quiet, healthy

Chinese

What Khang means

Khang means “peaceful, quiet, healthy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Khang is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Khang is pronounced [xaːŋ˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,211 boys were recorded with the name Khang between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,404 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,378 in 2020 to #4,957 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,745 in 2015 to #4,957 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Khang?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,957
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khang 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khangs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khang was born before 2006 — so the typical Khang is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,211
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Choose a decade

2000s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Khang 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
+598
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,579
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,212
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2007 (48)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,404
1990

Spellings of Khang

Khang is not the most common spelling — Shane is, with 54.8% against Khang's 0.34%.

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 Khang is used

Across 1910–2025, Khang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 68,671 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000

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. Khang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Khang around the world

Where Khang 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2012
    #1,818
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1984–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Khang by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,957
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,579
Best rank ever
#2,404
1990
Peak year
2007
48 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,211
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Khang

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

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Sibling names for Khang

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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