Dang

Boy · recorded 1979–2024

  • 2024last recorded
  • 1982best year

Most popular in 1982.

Last recorded in 2024. Fewer than five boys a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Dang.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1979

061219791990200220132024

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 33 recorded years as a table
Dang, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19795
19816
198212
19836
19845
19854
198610
19875
19885
19896
19905
19914
19927
19936
19944
19953
19965
19974
19983
19995
20015
20036
20057
20065
20074
20082
20095
20103
20114
20123
20153
20203
20243

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Dang isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2024
6
Rank in 2024
#10,938
How rare
1 in 287,148 boys
Since 1979
310

Dang was last recorded in 2024. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1982, at 12 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Dang doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.