Cheng
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #13,724 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 94.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 37 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 646since 1979
Cheng over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #6,620 | 12 | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #10,760 | 6 | |
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| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | #12,136 | 5 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | #8,915 | 8 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,667 | 12 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,556 | 29 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | — | #2,747 | 25 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,840 | 42 |
| 1989 | — | #2,027 | 35 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | — | #2,115 | 28 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,290 | 24 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,672 | 37 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | — | #2,676 | 17 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cheng! It came in at #4,068, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2005, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cheng is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#277 · 1 in 3,954
- Wisconsin#424 · 1 in 6,827
- California#762 · 1 in 13,140
Best ever in a state: #244 in Minnesota, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #277 | 8 | 1 in 3,954 |
| Wisconsin | #424 | 5 | 1 in 6,827 |
| California | #762 | 17 | 1 in 13,140 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cheng
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
- 5,388 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1985 at #1,672 (37 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 48,906 boys born in 1990 were named Cheng (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,672 in 1985, was only 1 in 49,952 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.1% of all boys named Cheng (259) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 9 | #4,068 (1979) | #4,068 |
| 1980s | 249 | #1,672 (1985) | #2,315 |
| 1990s | 259 | #1,840 (1990) | #3,221 |
| 2000s | 76 | #5,040 (2000) | #7,547 |
| 2010s | 24 | #9,600 (2011) | #10,803 |
| 2020s | 29 | #6,620 (2020) | #10,107 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cheng in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 49,952 of them was named Cheng, which outranked 78.0% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,644Tray38
- #1,644Trinidad38
- #1,644Vijay38
- #1,672Cheng37
- #1,672Antone37
- #1,672Bud37
- #1,672Chas37
- #1,698Angus36
- #1,698Axel36
- #1,698Berry36
Tied with 25 names at #1,672; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.