# Yang (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yang/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 338 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 291 / 47 (14% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 24, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 12,297 |
| 1985 | 6 | 10,660 |
| 1987 | 6 | 11,295 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,850 |
| 1989 | 6 | 12,339 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,535 |
| 1997 | 5 | 16,097 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,424 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | 7,858 |
| 2000 | 5 | 12,077 |
| 2001 | 9 | 7,513 |
| 2002 | 7 | 9,367 |
| 2003 | 10 | 7,228 |
| 2004 | 5 | 13,160 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,308 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8,764 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,679 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,989 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,535 |
| 2015 | 12 | 7,047 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,131 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,765 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12,292 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 4 | 3,589 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |

## People named Yang

- Liu Yang, Chinese astronaut
- Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
- Wang Yang, 9th Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- Yu Yang, Chinese badminton player, born 1986
- Yang Wei, Chinese artistic gymnast (born 1980)
- Yang Yang, Chinese actor
- Zhou Yang, Chinese short track speed skater
- Yang Yang, Chinese short track speed skater and politician
- Yang Yang, Chinese speed skater
- Jin Yang, Chinese pair skater
- Lü Yang, Chinese rower
- Xiao Yang, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of China (1938-2019)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.