How Many People Are Named Sang?

675

people named Sang are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 506,347 people in the US has this name

Based on 718 babies named Sang in Social Security records from 1929 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#13,635

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#4,912

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Peak Year

1981

32 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Korean
Pronunciation: SAHNG
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From Sino-Korean 常 (sang) meaning "common, frequent, regular" or other characters which are pronounced similarly.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
6.8%
Male
93.2%

Of the babies given the name Sang, 6.8% were girls and 93.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1980s: 10.6% of the babies were girls then and 11.2% in the 1990s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Sang alive today is about 34 years old, and 65% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 26 and 42 in 2025.

Under 30 217
32.1%
30 to 59 441
65.3%
60 and over 17
2.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Sang first appears in the records in 1929 and was given most often in 1981, to 32 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1929 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Sang has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #2,062, in 1985.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#2,062 (1985)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,442 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Sang alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Sang were born in California than in any other state: about 108 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sang was given 30 times as often in Kansas and 5.4 times in California.

California 108
Kansas 36
New York 6

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