Sung
Sung is a name with a single cultural origin: Korean.
- Korean
Meaning & Origin of Sung
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sung is a name with a single cultural origin: Korean.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Korean
The Story of Sung
As a girl name
Sung first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1950, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1971: 9 births, good for #5,543 nationwide. About 36% of every Sung on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Sung last appeared in the published SSA data in 2011, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 69 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
American parents first put Sung on the record books as a boy name in 1946, with 8 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1984, when 22 Sungs were born — ranking #2,292 that year. About 31% of every Sung on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Sung last appeared in the published SSA data in 2006, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 444 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Sung
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Sung. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Seong
Names that sound like Sung
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About the name Sung
Sung is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1946 and has accumulated 444 births in the dataset. Sung's peak popularity came in 1984 when it ranked #2,292. Use the chart and map above to compare Sung's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.