girls:
38 births since 1984
#5678 (1st percentile)
boys:
635 births since 1979
#3951 (14th percentile)
overall:
673 births since 1979
#7066 (9th percentile)
The name Cheng is the #7,066 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 673 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 8.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,951 (13.8% percentile) for all time with 635 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1984.
Cheng first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Cheng is available in 35 out of the 44 years between 1979 and 2022 (35 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cheng has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cheng reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #732) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Cheng reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #806) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cheng".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cheng. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.6% confident that Cheng is pronounced as chehng, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is chehng, at 15.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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