Wong
Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800
- Peak · boys
- 1888 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 187since 1880
Wong over time
Rank among boys' names. Wong has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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| 1905 | #919 | 8 |
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| 1903 | #1,009 | 6 |
| 1902 | #933 | 7 |
| 1901 | #637 | 11 |
| 1900 | #836 | 10 |
| 1899 | #928 | 6 |
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| 1896 | #826 | 8 |
| 1895 | #1,079 | 5 |
| 1894 | #668 | 10 |
| 1893 | #907 | 6 |
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| 1891 | #766 | 7 |
| 1890 | #739 | 8 |
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| 1888 | #580 | 12 |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | #758 | 7 |
| 1885 | #765 | 7 |
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| 1883 | #644 | 9 |
| 1882 | #652 | 9 |
| 1881 | #653 | 8 |
| 1880 | #600 | 10 |
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
- 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)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1888 at #580 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1880–1883
- 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
- 36.4% of all boys named Wong (68) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 68 | #580 (1888) | #684 |
| 1890s | 50 | #668 (1894) | #845 |
| 1900s | 42 | #637 (1901) | #867 |
| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 12 | #5,468 (1981) | #5,544 |
| 1990s | 10 | #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 1903
Top boys' names in 1903
More about 1903
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119,230 boys got a published name in 1903; 1 in 19,872 of them was named Wong, which outranked 22.7% of the 1,306 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).