Kang — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kang

The Social Security Administration has registered 108 babies named Kang between 1980 and 1995, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kang currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Kang is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 44 additional births since 1981.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kang performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 74 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kang shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Kang in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kang 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 108 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.