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Nga

Girls' name

Beautiful

Nga has been given to 349 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1981, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Nga, 1997

1 in 725,000

Nga over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nga: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Chinese

What Nga means

Nga means “beautiful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nga is used in Vietnamese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ŋaː˧˧/ for Nga.

Origin, language, and formation

Nga is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 349 girls were recorded with the name Nga between 1977 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1981; its best national rank was #2,332 in 1981.

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 Nga?

Nga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nga 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ngas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nga was born before 1984 — so the typical Nga is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
73.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
349
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 73.6% of all recorded uses (257).

Is Nga 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (43)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,332
1981

Where Nga is used

Across 1910–2025, Nga was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 259,979 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 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. Nga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nga around the world

Where Nga 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
    1999–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Nga 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,332
1981
Peak year
1981
43 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
349
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nga

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

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Sibling names for Nga

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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