Around the world, กาง (Kang 
, กาง 
) is a common largely boy's, but infrequently female first name. The given name กาง is habitual in Brunei, where it is quite a common masculine name, Indonesia, where it is quite a common predominantly boy's, but scarcely feminine name, and Gambia, where it is quite a rare unisex name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Indonesia, China, and the United States. More frequently, กาง is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
|---|---|
| Kang | United States, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, China |
| กาง | Thailand |
กาง is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Meng Kang , the Water Margin character; Kang , the The Simpsons character; Wu Gang ; Kang Ye-bin , the fictional character, SKY Castle and Kang , the fictional character from Star Trek, Flashback, among other works.