How rare is the name Huong?

12,700 people in the United States have the first name Huong, about 1 in 23,782. It ranks #2,116 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HUONG

#2,116

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,700
About
1 in 23,782
This common or more
78.6%
Who bears it

Of the 12,700 people named Huong, 98.8% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander. 93.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Huong peaked in 1982, when 51 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762011
Peak year
1982
Births that year
51
In 2011
5 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 578 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Huong by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #4,389. The largest share of babies named Huong, 70.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#9,44379
1980s#4,389344
1990s#10,957129
2000s#32,85121
2010s#47,4065
Generation X 1965–8019.7%
Millennials 1981–9670.8%
Generation Z 1997–129.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Huong

#2,114 Lynnette · 12,708#2,115 Kamila · 12,706#2,117 Zackery · 12,696#2,118 Jensen · 12,687

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Huong, most common first.

#1,693 Hung · 18,256#14,661 Huang · 800

Also a last name

As a last name, Huong ranks #55,632 of 156,621, with 398 people. See Huong as a last name

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