girls:
287 births since 1976
#5429 (5th percentile)
boys:
469 births since 1975
#4117 (10th percentile)
overall:
756 births since 1975
#6983 (10th percentile)
The name Dung is the #6,983 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 756 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 9.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,117 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 469 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,429 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 287 births since 1976.
Dung first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Dung is available in 25 out of the 26 years between 1975 and 2000 (24 years for boys and 21 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 Dung has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (62.0% of all recorded births). In 2000, 0.0% of babies named Dung were boys.
For boys, Dung reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #648) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 25 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
For girls, Dung reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #775) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dung".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Dung. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Dung is pronounced as duhng, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is doong, at 23.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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