Given name & surname
Hang
“of the moon”
Hang is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “of the moon.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “of the moon.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 382
- 0 boys · 382 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 45 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 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 45 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,854 as a first name in 2020; 7,003 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.
Hang’s family of names
Hang may belong to the same name family as HANNG. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hang
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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