Kyung
Meaning
respect, scenery or capital city, depending on the hanja; usually a name element
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kyung has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
129 people · the #34,464 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 62
Among people named Kyung living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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