Kaung
Origin
Burmese
Syllables
1
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
good, worthy (ကောင်း); among the most popular elements for boys born in the 2010s and 2020s, as in Kaung Myat and Kaung Htet; a Monday-letter name
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kaung has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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