Samnang
Origin
Khmer
Syllables
2
Peak era
1980s
Today
▬ Steady
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
1890speak 1980s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Samnang peaked in the 1980s.
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