Given name & surname
Trang
“one who is honored”
Trang is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is honored.”
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
Trang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 964
- 8 boys · 956 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 74 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 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 74 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,522 as a first name in 2020; 2,944 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.
Trang’s family of names
In English usage, Trang shares an earlier linguistic root with ZHUANG. In Vietnamese usage, Trang as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form ZHUANG.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Trang
- Hoang Thanh TrangVietnamese-born Hungarian chess playerborn 1980
- Phạm Đoan TrangVietnamese writer and activistborn 1978
- Vũ Thị TrangVietnamese badminton player (born 1992)
- SuboiVietnamese rapper and singer-songwriter (born 1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Trang, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Trinh
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“of the moon”
>99% girls
Tran
Tran is a surname from Vietnamese. It is used in English, French, and Czech.
19% boys · 81% girls
Thuong
“one who is loved tenderly” · “one who loves tenderly”
16% boys · 84% girls
Phuong
“one who recognizes his destiny”
21% boys · 79% girls
Huong
“having a delicate scent of a flower”
>99% girls
Hanh
“from the apricot tree”
4% boys · 96% girls
Thao
“one who is respectful of her parents” · “one who is courteous”
16% boys · 84% girls