Yong — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yong

The Social Security Administration has registered 301 babies named Yong between 1941 and 2006, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yong currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Yong is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 124 additional births since 1936.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yong performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 92 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Yong shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kansas, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Yong in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yong 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 301 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.