Dung — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dung

The Social Security Administration has registered 469 babies named Dung between 1975 and 1998, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dung currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Dung is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 287 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dung performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Dung shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 104 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Dung in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dung 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 469 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.