Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Ching**

#14,834 most common boys' name of all time · #38,459 across all names · 74% male / 26% female · used 1980–1998 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#14,834
Rank overall
#38,459 of 105,966
First appeared
1980
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
114
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1985 #7,274
Best rank
#3,954 1982
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
1980

Ching first appears in 1980. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1998 5 5 #10,297
1995 6 6 #8,339
1994 12 12 #5,015
1992 5 9 14 #5,961
1991 6 6 #7,822
1990 9 9 #5,692
1989 7 7 #6,734
1988 8 8 #5,633
1987 5 6 11 #6,680
1986 5 5
1985 9 5 14 #7,274
1982 11 11 #3,954
1980 6 6