Phong
Last seen for girls in 1985 at #10,677 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 51 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,011since 1975
Phong over time
Rank among boys' names. Phong has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,255 | 9 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,643 | 10 | |
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,095 | 11 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,816 | 8 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,537 | 10 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,686 | 20 | |
| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,802 | 12 | |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,915 | 8 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,460 | 12 | |
| 2005 | — | #8,299 | 8 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,276 | 19 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,909 | 21 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,588 | 12 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,197 | 16 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,877 | 17 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,021 | 24 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,556 | 29 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,030 | 23 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,778 | 47 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,823 | 43 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,128 | 34 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,245 | 30 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,514 | 49 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,655 | 41 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,389 | 49 |
| 1984 | — | #1,294 | 51 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,399 | 45 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,342 | 49 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,500 | 41 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,695 | 34 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Phong! It came in at #4,309, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2021–2022, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Phong is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#315 · 1 in 4,379
- Wisconsin#443 · 1 in 6,480
- Texas#1,209 · 1 in 24,018
- California#1,221 · 1 in 25,224
Best ever in a state: #307 in Minnesota, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #315 | 7 | 1 in 4,379 |
| Wisconsin | #443 | 5 | 1 in 6,480 |
| Texas | #1,209 | 6 | 1 in 24,018 |
| California | #1,221 | 10 | 1 in 25,224 |
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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 Phong
- 3,021 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #12,008)
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
- 1,364 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1984 at #1,294 (51 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,389 boys born in 1984 were named Phong (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.2% of all boys named Phong (427) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 49 | #2,379 (1979) | #4,083 |
| 1980s | 427 | #1,294 (1984) | #1,570 |
| 1990s | 282 | #1,778 (1992) | #2,938 |
| 2000s | 124 | #3,909 (2002) | #6,472 |
| 2010s | 95 | #4,686 (2012) | #8,533 |
| 2020s | 34 | #8,255 (2023) | #10,227 |
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.
Phong in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 39,067 of them was named Phong, which outranked 82.2% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,501Rubin50
- #1,501Sky50
- #1,501Wilmer50
- #1,514Phong49
- #1,514Ceasar49
- #1,514Constantine49
- #1,514Derron49
- #1,525Ace48
- #1,525Ajay48
- #1,525Axel48
Tied with 10 names at #1,514; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.