Kyung

girls:

86 births since 1947

#5630 (1st percentile)

boys:

27 births since 1990

#4559 (1st percentile)

overall:

113 births since 1947

#7626 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Kyung is the #7,626 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 113 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,630 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1990.

Kyung first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for girls and 1990 for boys). Birth data for Kyung is available in 19 out of the 52 years between 1947 and 1998 (15 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Kyung has been given predominantly to girls, with 76.1% of all recorded births being female. In 1998, 0.0% of babies named Kyung were girls. Interestingly, until around 1990, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1947 to 1989), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (79.4% boys from 1990 to 1998).

For girls, Kyung reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #677) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.

For boys, Kyung reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #767) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kyung".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
86
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
1949
First Recorded
1947
Peak Percentile
0.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#677
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
27
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
1990
First Recorded
1990
Peak Percentile
0.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#767
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kyung

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Kyung. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 38.5% confident that Kyung is pronounced as kyoong, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kyueng, at 23.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.

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38.5%
1
23.1%
1
15.4%
1
15.4%
kyoong (1 syllable)
38.5% confidence
K Y UH1 N G
kyueng (1 syllable)
23.1% confidence
K Y UW1 N G
kyuhng (1 syllable)
Verified
15.4% confidence
K Y AH1 NG
kyuhng (1 syllable)
15.4% confidence
K Y AH1 N G
KEE-uhng (2 syllables)
7.7% confidence
K IY1 AH0 N G

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K Y UH1 N G) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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