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Trang

Girls' name

Adornment, makeup or solemn, serious

Trang has been given to 964 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 1982, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Trang, 2011

1 in 610,000

Trang over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trang: meaning, origin, and history

Adornment, makeup or solemn, serious

Vietnamese and Chinese

What Trang means

Trang means “adornment, makeup or solemn, serious”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trang is used in Vietnamese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡ɕaːŋ˧˧/ and /ʈaːŋ˧˧/ for Trang.

Origin, language, and formation

Trang is used in English, French and Vietnamese. Its origins include Vietnamese and Chinese.

Trang comes through Vietnamese Trang.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Trang is pronounced [t͡ɕaːŋ˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 956 girls were recorded with the name Trang between 1975 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,598 in 1982.

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Trang between 1984 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,934 in 1984.

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 Trang?

Trang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trang sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trangs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trang was born before 1987 — so the typical Trang is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
956
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (523).

Is Trang 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 1982 (74)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,598
1982

Spellings of Trang

Trang is not the most common spelling — Tracy is, with 61.1% against Trang's 0.23%.

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 Trang is used

Across 1910–2025, Trang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 80,756 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 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. Trang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trang around the world

Where Trang 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
    2006–2006
    #4,157
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #2,489
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1982–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trang by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,598
1982
Peak year
1982
74 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
956
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,934
1984
Peak year
1984
8 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trang

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

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Sibling names for Trang

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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