Given name & surname
Giang
Giang is a unisex given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Giang comes from Chinese, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Giang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 63 boys · 12 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,501 as a first name in 2020; 3,509 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Giang’s family of names
In Vietnamese usage, Giang has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean. In Greek usage, Giang as a surname is a transliteration of Γιανγ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Giang
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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