Hung
Hung was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,018 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hung by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hung?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,059, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
88 babies in 1982, the peak
Hung peaked in 1982, when 88 boys were given it, #960 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,059 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,893 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,998 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,235 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,285 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,243 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,307 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,362 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,097 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,911 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #7,899 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,796 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,019 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,674 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,766 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,907 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,240 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,176 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,654 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,784 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,993 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,121 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,051 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,355 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,372 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,136 | 18.9 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,557 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,199 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,331 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,562 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,007 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,809 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,674 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 40 | #1,604 | 21.6 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,148 | 34.9 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,112 | 36.3 |
| 1982 | 88 | #960 | 48.5 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,105 | 38.0 |
| 1980 | 51 | #1,319 | 28.6 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,545 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,099 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,596 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,136 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,576 | 10.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hung a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hung has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hung: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hung, and how old are they?
An estimated 965 Americans named Hung and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 18,256 people named Hung (931 women and girls, 17,325 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 975 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hung born?
The states with the most babies named Hung are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 245 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 44 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Kansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Hung is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hung is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hung with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hung
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hung and names like it
- Compare Hung and TuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHung peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hung since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Hung.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hung alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.