Given name & surname
Quang
“a clear-headed man”
Quang is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “a clear-headed man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “a clear-headed man.”
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 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Quang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 733
- 733 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 42 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 boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 42 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,571 as a first name in 2020; 1,148 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.
People named Quang
- Trần Đại Quang8th President of Vietnam (1956–2018)
- Thích Trí QuangVietnamese Buddhist monk (1924–2019)
- Quang VinhVietnamese singerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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