Yeng — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yeng

The Social Security Administration has registered 426 babies named Yeng between 1980 and 2009, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yeng currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Yeng is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yeng performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 228 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yeng shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 155 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Yeng in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yeng 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 426 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.