Khang
Khang was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,957 among boys’ names; 1,211 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Khang and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khang by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Khang mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Khang is “a male given name from Chinese”
Sino-Vietnamese word from 康.
[xaːŋ˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Khang?
#4,957 among boys’ names, 2025
Khang fell from #3,745 in 2015 to #4,957 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 11.7 per million.
48 babies in 2007, the peak
Khang peaked in 2007, when 48 boys were given it, #2,585 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,957 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,555 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,539 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,369 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,073 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,378 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,672 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,422 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,218 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,038 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,745 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,573 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,095 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,031 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,084 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,417 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,022 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,917 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,585 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,769 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,778 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,549 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,886 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,575 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,274 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,476 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,765 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,114 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,403 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,339 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,495 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,279 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,091 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,774 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,783 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,404 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,735 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,441 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,632 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,065 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,926 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,819 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,532 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,896 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,135 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,245 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,741 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khang a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khang has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khang: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khang, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,211 Americans ever recorded as Khang. The median Khang alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,405 people named Khang (144 women and girls, 3,261 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 268 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 542 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 363 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Khang born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,102 | 2.0× |
Where Khang is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khang is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.0 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 Khang 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 Khang
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 Khang and names like it
- Compare Khang and AshwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKhang peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khang since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Khang: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Khang.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Khang alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.