Yong
Yong was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 425 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yong by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yong?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,012, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1946, the peak
Yong peaked in 1946, when 17 babies were given it (10 boys, #2,531 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #12,012 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,902 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #8,614 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #12,264 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 11 | #6,298 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,879 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,449 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #7,262 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,985 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,390 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,953 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 13 | #4,683 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,409 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 9 | #5,920 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,805 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 10 | #5,149 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 12 | #4,152 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 9 | #4,952 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,806 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,686 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,301 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,049 | 11 | #3,878 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,993 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #4,146 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 12 | #3,609 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,548 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #5,116 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,926 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,498 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,653 | 6 | #4,979 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #5,032 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,943 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,652 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,858 | 5 | #4,625 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #4,059 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #4,033 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,562 | 6 | #3,984 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,920 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,914 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,490 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,722 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,322 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,589 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,204 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,098 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,665 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,728 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,412 | 10 | #2,531 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,998 | |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,341 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,848 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yong a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 425 Americans recorded as Yong, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yong: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yong, and how old are they?
An estimated 363 Americans named Yong and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 33 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 15,448 people named Yong (6,627 women and girls, 8,821 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40.5 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.
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 Yong born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 155 | not ranked | 32.6× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Yong is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yong is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1936 it was given 32.6 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 Yong with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,051 babies since 1880, Yong is the third most given (10% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Yong and names like it
- Compare Yong and YoungBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sYong peaked in 1946.
- Kansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yong since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Yong.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yong alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.