Meng
Meng is a boy's name that peaked in 1993, when it was the 1,969th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2013. About 540 Mengs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Meng boys named Meng
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 568
- Estimated living today
- 540
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 1,969th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1979
- Girls / boys
- 13 / 555
How old the living Mengs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 568 babies given the name since 1979, about 540 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mengs
- Meng Haoran (690–740)poet from the Tang Dynasty
- Meng Wanzhou (born 1972)Chinese business executive
- Chen Meng (born 1994)Chinese table tennis player
- Lü Meng (178–219)General serving under warlord Sun Quan
- Meng Jianzhu (born 1947)Chinese politician
- Meng Zhixiang (874–934)general and later founder of the Later Shu kingdom
- Lee Meng-yuan (born 1994)Taiwanese sport shooter
- Dai Meng (born 1993)Chinese idol singer
People named Meng with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Meng is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Meng is most concentrated in Minnesota (13.6×), Wisconsin (8.4×), California (5.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Meng peaked:
Meng elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Meng | 40 | 2,538th |
| England and Wales girls | Meng | 14 | 4,838th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Meng among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Meng | — | 7 |
| Finland boys | Meng | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Meng against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.