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Sang

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Wealthy, luxurious

Sang has been given to 718 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1987, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Sang, 2024

1 in 557,000

Sang 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Sang over time

In 2024, Sang went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19292024

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.

Sang: meaning, origin, and history

Wealthy, luxurious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sang means

Sang means “wealthy, luxurious”, associated with sang.

Origin, language, and formation

Sang is used in Vietnamese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Sang is pronounced [saːŋ˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 671 boys were recorded with the name Sang between 1929 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1987; its best national rank was #2,062 in 1985.

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Sang between 1981 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,156 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.

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How common is Sang?

Sang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sang 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sangs were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
659
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (219).

Is Sang 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 1987 (29)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,062
1985

Spellings of Sang

Sang is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 26.4% against Sang'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 Sang is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Sang was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 203,858 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 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. Sang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Sang is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Sang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Sang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sang around the world

Where Sang 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
    2001–2001
    #2,587
    in 2001
  • France
    1993–1993
    #2,922
    in 1993
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #1,974
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Sang 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
#2,062
1985
Peak year
1987
29 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
671
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,156
1983
Peak year
1991
10 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sang

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

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Sibling names for Sang

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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