Cheng — #11221 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cheng

The Social Security Administration has registered 641 babies named Cheng between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cheng currently holds the #11221 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Cheng is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cheng performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 259 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Cheng shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 212 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Cheng in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cheng in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 641 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.