Chung — boys' name

What the Data Says About Chung

The Social Security Administration has registered 198 babies named Chung between 1942 and 1996, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chung currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Chung is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chung performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chung shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chung in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chung 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 198 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.