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Meng

Boys' name

Dream

Meng has been given to 568 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1993, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Meng, 2013

1 in 729,000

Meng over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meng: meaning, origin, and history

Dream

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meng means

Meng means “dream”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Meng is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /məŋ/ for Meng.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 555 boys were recorded with the name Meng between 1979 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,901 in 1986.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Meng between 2004 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #13,486 in 2007.

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 Meng?

Meng had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meng 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meng. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mengs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meng was born before 1991 — so the typical Meng is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
555
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (258).

Is Meng 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (41)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,901
1986

Spellings of Meng

Meng is not the most common spelling — Gene is, with 27.6% against Meng's 0.12%.

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 Meng is used

Across 1910–2025, Meng was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 67,476 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 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. Meng has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meng around the world

Where Meng 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.

  • France
    1979–1993
    #2,538
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1979–1981
    #425
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Meng by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,901
1986
Peak year
1993
41 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
555
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,486
2007
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Meng

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

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Sibling names for Meng

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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