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How popular is “Hong” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hong” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Hong” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Hong” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Hong” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Hong” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Hong” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hong” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1976 21 0.000006921 15 6 43%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 100%
1980 38 0.000011032 26 12 37%
1981 37 0.000010696 24 13 30%
1982 66 0.000018814 46 20 39%
1983 43 0.000012416 32 11 49%
1984 40 0.000011465 26 14 30%
1985 31 0.000008686 25 6 61%
1986 40 0.000011245 27 13 35%
1987 35 0.000009707 29 6 66%
1988 32 0.00000866 23 9 44%
1989 16 0.000004162 9 7 13%
1990 24 0.000006072 17 7 42%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 31 0.00000807 25 6 61%
1993 25 0.000006631 19 6 52%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 6 5 9%
1998 12 0.000003262 7 5 17%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%

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