girls:
11 births since 1981
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
325 births since 1979
#4261 (7th percentile)
overall:
336 births since 1979
#7403 (4th percentile)
The name Vang is the #7,403 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 336 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,261 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1981.
Vang first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Vang is available in 23 out of the 24 years between 1979 and 2002 (23 years for boys and 2 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 Vang has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vang reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #733) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
For girls, Vang reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #861) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vang".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vang. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.8% confident that Vang is pronounced as vang, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vang, at 16.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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