Liang
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Liang has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2008, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Liang, 2018
1 in 586,000
Liang 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Liang?
Liang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 586,000
- 6 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 303,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 406,284 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Liang sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Liangs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Liang was born before 2012 — so the typical Liang is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 72.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 40
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 72.5% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Liang 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2008 (6)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.2% average annual change
Spellings of Liang
Liang is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 46.3% against Liang'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.
Liang around the world
Where Liang 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 & Wales2005–2008#4,432in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Liang by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Liang
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Liang
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.