Ngun — unisex name
54 babies named Ngun in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Ngun was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Ngun in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ngun
The Social Security Administration has registered 54 babies named Ngun between 2012 and 2018, spanning 7 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ngun currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Ngun is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2015.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ngun performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Indiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ngun in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ngun 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 54 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.
Ngun at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ngun popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2012
- Peak year (2017)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 7 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
54 total births across 7 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 11 births in a single year.
Ngun popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 2015 (Ngun as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Ngun accounts for 8% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ngun by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 54 births that decade — 100% of Ngun's all-time total
Ngun decade highlights
- Peak decade 54 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ngun's strongest decade
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
Ngun by state
Where Ngun concentrates geographically — total births since 2012
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Indiana | | 5 | 9.3% |
5 of 54 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Indiana 9.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Indiana accounts for 9.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2012–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.