Myung
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Meaning
bright, light and clear; more often a name element than a standalone name
How popular is Myung around the world?
In the United States, Myung is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. At the 2022 census, 75 people in Brazil were named Myung, ranked 50,418th, with a median age of 65.
Myung is on the official records of Brazil.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Myung is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Myung appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 75 people in Brazil were named Myung, ranked 50,418th, with a median age of 65.
Among people named Myung living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Myung deep dive
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