Sung
About 513 American babies have been named Sung since 1946, most of them around 1984. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 470 Sungs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sung boys named Sung
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 513
- Estimated living today
- 470
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 2,292nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1946
- Girls / boys
- 69 / 444
How old the living Sungs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 513 babies given the name since 1946, about 470 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 Sungs
- Sung Jae-gi (1967–2013)South Korean masculism activist
- Sung Yu-ri (born 1981)South Korean singer and actress
- Sung Hoon (born 1983)South Korean actor
- Sung Si-Bak (born 1987)South Korean short track speed skater
- Sung Ji-hyun (born 1991)South Korean badminton player
- Sung Han-bin (born 2001)South Korean singer and dancer
- Sung Dong-il (born 1967)South Korean actor
People named Sung with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sung is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sung is most concentrated in Kansas (63.1×), New York (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular boys’ names the year Sung peaked:
Sung elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Sung | 14 | 2,470th |
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.
Related names
Sung against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.