Thang

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 37 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
37
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Thang by the numbers

Thang was given to 37 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 44 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Thang

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Thang. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Thanenoble, landowner, Scottish feudal lord49 in the US (2017)
  • Thawng9 in the US (2017)
  • Tuang6 in the US (2017)
  • Thaynethin; a form of Thane19 in the US (2017)
  • Thinhprosperous; flourishing5 in the US (2017)
  • Thanosdeath, immortal; short for Athanasios3 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Thang

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