How rare is the name Nga?

9,003 people in the United States have the first name Nga, about 1 in 33,548. It ranks #2,638 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

NGA

#2,638

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,003
About
1 in 33,548
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 9,003 people named Nga, 98.5% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander. 95.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nga peaked in 1981, when 43 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19771997
Peak year
1981
Births that year
43
In 1997
5 ▼88%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 349 babies have been given the name since 1977. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Nga by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #5,414. The largest share of babies named Nga, 83.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#15,12228
1980s#5,414257
1990s#16,75364
Generation X 1965–8015.2%
Millennials 1981–9683.4%
Generation Z 1997–121.4%

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 Nga

#2,636 Han · 9,006#2,637 Rina · 9,004#2,639 Kenton · 8,996#2,640 Eleazar · 8,971

Spelled almost the same

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

#15,832 Ngo · 721#21,691 Ngai · 466#27,808 Ngu · 327#42,480 Ng · 169

Also a last name

As a last name, Nga ranks #98,501 of 156,621, with 197 people. See Nga as a last name

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