Samnang
Meaning
luck, good fortune; a native Khmer word rather than a Sanskrit borrowing. Given heavily to children born in the late 1970s and 1980s, when surviving the Khmer Rouge years and reaching a border camp made the meaning literal; in the US it reads as a first-generation marker
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Samnang has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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