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 | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | #8,915 | 8 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
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| 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 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#355 · 1 in 3,459
- California#1,187 · 1 in 22,954
Best ever in a state: #244 in Minnesota, 1991.
Show every state
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| Wisconsin | #355 | 9 | 1 in 3,459 |
| California | #1,187 | 12 | 1 in 22,954 |
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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 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 361,814 of them was named Cheng, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,359 names at #13,442; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 72,642 of them was named Cheng, which outranked 74.0% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,577Yehoshua28
- #2,577Zacharey28
- #2,577Zaire28
- #2,641Cheng27
- #2,641Abdiel27
- #2,641Alen27
- #2,641Cheyne27
- #2,697Adil26
- #2,697Ana26
- #2,697Antoni26
Tied with 55 names at #2,641; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.