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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cheng

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#12,389

down −1,198 places

2025 births

5

down −1 births

All-time births

646

1% of them in 2025

More common than

85%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1990
42 births
Best rank
#1,675
in 1985
First recorded
1979
#4,130 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
37 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199042#1,845Peak
  2. 199140#1,926
  3. 198537#1,675
  4. 198935#2,036
  5. 198831#2,042

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,675 in 1985 · peak births 42 in 1990

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 94% boys■ 6% girls

646 boys · 38 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cheng has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.