Hung

Where Hung comes from

Hung hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1948
    Hung Liu born
    Chinese-American artist
  2. 1971
    Hung Cao born
    American politician and Navy veteran
  3. 1975
    First appearance
    #2,540 among boys, 16 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1982
    Peak, #957
    88 babies named Hung — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,594.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hung Cao · American politician and Navy veteran, born 1971
  • Hung Liu · Chinese-American artist, 1948–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.