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Kyung

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Alternate transcription of Gyeong

Kyung has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1949, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% girls, 24% boys all-time.

Babies named Kyung, 1993

1 in 538,000

Kyung over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kyung over time

In 1998, Kyung went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19471998

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.

Kyung: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Gyeong

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kyung means

Kyung is a alternate transcription of Gyeong.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kyung is used in Korean.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kjʌŋ/ for Kyung.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gyeong.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 86 girls were recorded with the name Kyung between 1947 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1949; its best national rank was #4,455 in 1949.

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Kyung between 1990 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1990; its best national rank was #6,851 in 1990.

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 Kyung?

Kyung had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 538,000
7 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 258,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
373,185 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kyung sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 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 373,185 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kyung. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kyungs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kyung was born before 1958 — so the typical Kyung is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
74
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1950s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Kyung 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 1949 (7)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,455
1949

Spellings of Kyung

Kyung is not the most common spelling — Yuna is, with 44.2% against Kyung's 1.2%.

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 Kyung is used

Across 1910–2025, Kyung was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 30,368 across all states with data.

33 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 33,333

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

Kyung around the world

Where Kyung 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.

  • South Australia
    1976–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kyung by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,455
1949
Peak year
1949
7 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,851
1990
Peak year
1990
7 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kyung

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

VungPhungNhungSungJungYoungDungMyungChungKyuanaHayoungPhoungMungSoyoungJiyoungJeeyoungTuyetnhung

Sibling names for Kyung

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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