Wong

Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800

Peak · boys
1888 · 12 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
187
since 1880

Wong over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Wong has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201882peak #580, 1888boys
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1883#6449
1882#6529
1881#6538
1880#60010
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Wong was already there! It came in at #600, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1884, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Wong is popular in 1882

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Wong
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1994
  • Biggest jump: 253 spots in 1896 (#1,079 → #826)
  • Biggest drop: 411 spots in 1895 (#668 → #1,079)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1888 at #580 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1880–1883
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,679
  • Highest: 1 in 9,679 boys born in 1901 were named Wong (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 386,406 boys born in 1994 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #580 in 1888, was only 1 in 10,071 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1880s
  • 36.4% of all boys named Wong (68) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s68#580 (1888)#684
1890s50#668 (1894)#845
1900s42#637 (1901)#867
1910s5#3,897 (1916)#3,897
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1980s12#5,468 (1981)#5,544
1990s10#8,236 (1991)#8,518

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.

Wong in 1882

boys
#652
9 births · 1 in 12,632 boys

Top boys' names in 1882

  1. #1John9,557
  2. #2William9,298
  3. #3James5,892
  4. #4George5,193
  5. #5Charles5,091
  6. #6Frank3,176
  7. #7Joseph2,670
  8. #8Thomas2,610
  9. #9Henry2,579
  10. #10Robert2,500
  11. #652Wong9
More about 1882

boys

113,686 boys got a published name in 1882; 1 in 12,632 of them was named Wong, which outranked 40.7% of the 1,099 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wong
  1. #611Travis10
  2. #611Wilton10
  3. #611Zeb10
  4. #652Wong9
  5. #652Allison9
  6. #652Anson9
  7. #652Asbury9
  8. #691Ace8
  9. #691Alden8
  10. #691Alec8

Tied with 38 names at #652; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1881
Risers
  1. ↑ 467Clarance#866 → #399
  2. ↑ 429Webster#866 → #437
  3. ↑ 365Neil#781 → #416
  4. ↑ 352Cliff#866 → #514
  5. ↑ 352Elmore#866 → #514
Fallers
  1. ↓ 501Verne#442 → #943
  2. ↓ 483Newell#460 → #943
  3. ↓ 456Merritt#487 → #943
  4. ↓ 440Solon#503 → #943
  5. ↓ 395Almon#442 → #837

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1882 →