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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201881peak #580, 1888boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1994#8,8005
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1982#5,6196
1981#5,4686
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1916#3,8975
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1905#9198
1904
1903#1,0096
1902#9337
1901#63711
1900#83610
1899#9286
1898
1897
1896#8268
1895#1,0795
1894#66810
1893#9076
1892
1891#7667
1890#7398
1889
1888#58012
1887#8196
1886#7587
1885#7657
1884
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.

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
1920s0
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
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 1881

boys
#653
8 births · 1 in 12,592 boys

Top boys' names in 1881

  1. #1John8,768
  2. #2William8,524
  3. #3James5,441
  4. #4George4,664
  5. #5Charles4,636
  6. #6Frank2,834
  7. #7Joseph2,456
  8. #8Henry2,339
  9. #9Thomas2,282
  10. #10Edward2,177
  11. #653Wong8
More about 1881

boys

100,735 boys got a published name in 1881; 1 in 12,592 of them was named Wong, which outranked 34.4% of the 996 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 43.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wong
  1. #595Vivian9
  2. #595Willian9
  3. #595Young9
  4. #653Wong8
  5. #653Aloysius8
  6. #653Ambers8
  7. #653Archer8
  8. #706Addie7
  9. #706Albion7
  10. #706Alec7

Tied with 52 names at #653; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1880
Risers
  1. 491Noble#809#318
  2. 449Ivy#909#460
  3. 449Buck#909#460
  4. 376Chin#909#533
  5. 376Ransom#909#533
Fallers
  1. 431Neil#350#781
  2. 378Alvah#403#781
  3. 361Webster#505#866
  4. 356Melville#425#781
  5. 316Hector#465#781

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

See the top 100 for 1881