Kyung — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kyung

The Social Security Administration has registered 86 babies named Kyung between 1947 and 1993, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kyung currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Kyung is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kyung performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 39 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kyung shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kansas, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kyung in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kyung 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 86 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.