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Quang

Boys' name

Bright, clear

Quang has been given to 733 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 42 recorded.

Babies named Quang, 2021

1 in 678,000

Quang over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Quang: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, clear

Chinese

What Quang means

Quang means “bright, clear”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Quang is used in Vietnamese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kwaːŋ˧˧/ and /waːŋ˧˧/ for Quang.

Origin, language, and formation

Quang is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Quang is pronounced [kwaːŋ˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 733 boys were recorded with the name Quang between 1975 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,492 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 Quang?

Quang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Quang 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Quangs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Quang was born before 1988 — so the typical Quang is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
733
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (337).

Is Quang 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 (42)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,492
1981

Spellings of Quang

Quang is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 68.2% against Quang's 0.14%.

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 Quang is used

Across 1910–2025, Quang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 164,037 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. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Quang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Quang around the world

Where Quang 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2018
    #5,404
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1983–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Quang 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
#1,492
1981
Peak year
1981
42 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
733
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Quang

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

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Sibling names for Quang

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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