Peng
Peng is a boy's name that peaked in 1995, when it was the 3,432nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2001. About 220 Pengs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Peng
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 227
- Estimated living today
- 220
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 3,432nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1981
How old the living Pengs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 227 babies given the name since 1981, about 220 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Pengs
- Li Peng (1928–2019)4th Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Peng Liyuan (born 1962)Chinese soprano, 2nd spouse of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012
- Peng Dehuai (1898–1974)Chinese military leader, Marshal of the People's Republic of China
- Peng Shuai (born 1986)Chinese female tennis player
- Peng Zhen (1902–1997)Chinese politician
- Peng Zhaoqin (born 1968)Chinese-Dutch chess player
- Peng Pai (1896–1929)Chinese agrarian movement and peasants' rights activist
- Tang Peng (born 1981)table tennis player
People named Peng with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Peng is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Peng is most concentrated in California (9.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular boys’ names the year Peng peaked:
Peng elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Peng | 3 | 4,333rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Peng among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Peng | 6 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Peng lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 257 men called Peng were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid | Peng | 79 | 0.023 | 2,021 |
| Barcelona | Peng | 60 | 0.021 | 2,307 |
| Toledo | Peng | 7 | 0.018 | 2,083 |
| Málaga | Peng | 14 | 0.016 | 2,680 |
| Balears, Illes | Peng | 10 | 0.016 | 3,165 |
| Granada | Peng | 6 | 0.013 | 2,589 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Peng against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.