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Yong

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Brave or perpetual, eternal

Yong has been given to 425 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1993, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Yong, 2006

1 in 659,000

Yong over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2006, Yong went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19362006

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.

Yong: meaning, origin, and history

Brave or perpetual, eternal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yong means

Yong means “brave or perpetual, eternal”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yong is used in Chinese and Korean.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jʊŋ/ and /joŋ/ for Yong.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 301 boys were recorded with the name Yong between 1941 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,531 in 1946.

In the United States, 124 girls were recorded with the name Yong between 1936 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1954; its best national rank was #3,322 in 1954.

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 Yong?

Yong had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yong 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 2006 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 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yong. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yongs were born

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

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
280
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Yong 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (13)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,531
1946

Spellings of Yong

Yong is not the most common spelling — Tony is, with 33.7% against Yong'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 Yong is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Yong was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 306,245 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 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. Yong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Yong is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Yong was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 15,465 across all states with data.

66 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 16,667

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

Yong around the world

Where Yong 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
    2001–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • France
    1989–1995
    #3,397
    in 1995
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1992–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Yong 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
#2,531
1946
Peak year
1993
13 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
301
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,322
1954
Peak year
1954
13 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yong

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

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Sibling names for Yong

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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