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Peng

Boys' name

Friend or vigorous

Peng has been given to 227 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1995, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Peng, 2001

1 in 748,000

Peng over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Peng: meaning, origin, and history

Friend or vigorous

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Peng means

Peng means “friend or vigorous”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Peng is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pʰəŋ/ for Peng.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 227 boys were recorded with the name Peng between 1981 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1995; its best national rank was #3,030 in 1983.

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 Peng?

Peng had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peng 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peng. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pengs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peng was born before 1989 — so the typical Peng is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
227
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Peng 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 1995 (19)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,030
1983

Spellings of Peng

Peng is not the most common spelling — Gene is, with 26.1% against Peng's 0.05%.

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 Peng is used

Across 1910–2025, Peng was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 242,754 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —

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

Peng around the world

Where Peng 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
    2007–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

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.

Peng 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,030
1983
Peak year
1995
19 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
227
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Peng

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

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Sibling names for Peng

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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