Pang
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pang has been given to 626 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1984, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Pang, 1999
1 in 336,000
Pang 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Pang?
Pang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 336,000
- 11 of 3,692,373 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 232,670 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pang sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 232,670 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pangs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pang was born before 1988 — so the typical Pang is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 58.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 615
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 58.9% of all recorded uses (362).
Is Pang 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
- —
- 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 1984 (44)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Pang
Pang is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 28.3% against Pang's 0.04%.
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 Pang is used
Across 1910–2025, Pang was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 58,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Rhode Island (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 2Wisconsin1 in 33,333
- 3California1 in 100,000
- 4Rhode Island1 in 100,000
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. Pang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pang around the world
Where Pang 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.
- France1978–1985#3,422in 1985
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Pang by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Pang
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pang
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.