Sung
Recorded 1946–2011 · United States
Sung was most popular in 1989, when 24 American babies were given the name — ranking #6,334 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 513 people named Sung.
Sung over time
How old is the name Sung?
Sung first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1946, which makes it about 79 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 46 of the 80 years since. It was last recorded in 2011.
How many people are named Sung?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 513 American births named Sung between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 472 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Sung in 2025?
Sung was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Sung getting more or less popular?
Sung is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Sung a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Sung is mostly a boy’s name — 13.5% of the 513 Americans given it were girls and 86.5% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Sung?
Roughly 472 Americans named Sung are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 41 years old, and half are between 34 and 50.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Sung is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org