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Samnang

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Luck, fortune

Samnang has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1986, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.

Babies named Samnang, 2005

1 in 769,000

Samnang over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Samnang over time

In 2005, Samnang went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19802005

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Samnang: meaning, origin, and history

Luck, fortune

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samnang means

Samnang means “luck, fortune”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Samnang is used in Khmer.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sɑm.ˈnaːŋ/ for Samnang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 139 boys were recorded with the name Samnang between 1980 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1986; its best national rank was #2,485 in 1985.

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Samnang between 1983 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1986; its best national rank was #7,011 in 1986.

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 Samnang?

Samnang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among boys only
1 in 399,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samnang 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samnang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samnangs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samnang was born before 1986 — so the typical Samnang is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
83.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
139
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 83.5% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Samnang 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (22)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,485
1985

Where Samnang is used

Across 1910–2025, Samnang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,667,423 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 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. Samnang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Samnang around the world

Where Samnang 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
    1982–2018
    #6,819
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1987–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Samnang 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
#2,485
1985
Peak year
1986
22 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
139
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,011
1986
Peak year
1986
10 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samnang

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

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Sibling names for Samnang

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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