girls:
124 births since 1936
#5592 (2nd percentile)
boys:
300 births since 1941
#4286 (6th percentile)
overall:
424 births since 1936
#7315 (5th percentile)
The name Yong is the #7,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 424 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,286 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 300 births since 1941. For girls, it ranks #5,592 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 124 births since 1936.
Yong first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for girls and 1941 for boys). Birth data for Yong is available in 51 out of the 71 years between 1936 and 2006 (39 years for boys and 17 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 Yong has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2006, 100.0% of babies named Yong were boys. Interestingly, until around 1945, the name was more popular for girls (68.8% girls from 1936 to 1944), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (72.3% boys from 1945 to 2006).
For boys, Yong reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
For girls, Yong reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #715) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yong".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yong. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.8% confident that Yong is pronounced as yawng, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yawng, at 16.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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