Aung
given name · Burmese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aung is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and Thai, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Burmese အောင် (aung).
- MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 8◐
- THThailand1 in 948
- SGSingapore1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- #679 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 215 ●
- 1 in 18K ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
69K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ng in SE Sweden, HK Hong Kong, LA Laos, อง in TH Thailand, Ong in PH Philippines and ยัง in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Borrowed from Burmese အောင် (aung).
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #2 | 3,887,617 | 17K rec. | — | 2.8M | Aung | 139 |
| TH Thailand | #719 | 65,613 | 20K rec. | — | #85,906 | อง | 133 |
| MY Malaysia | #401 | 14,426 | 8.2K rec. | — | 1.7K | Aung | 43 |
| US United States | — | 12,949 | 13K rec. | 1 in 26K | 33K | Aung | 215 |
| SG Singapore | #222 | 4,142 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Aung | 80 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 1,026 | 46 rec. | — | listed | Aung | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 844△ | 20 rec. | 1 in 59K | 844 | — | 8 |
| PH Philippines | — | 626 | 616 rec. | — | — | Ong | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 591 | 961 rec. | — | listed | Aung | 62 |
| SE Sweden | — | 577△ | 38 rec. | 1 in 18K | 1.3K | Ng | 8 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | 227 | 258 rec. | — | 391 | Ng | 29 |
| CN China | — | 214 | 72 rec. | — | — | Aung | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Burmese3.9M99%
- Thai12K1%
- English6.6K1%
- Indonesian1.9K1%
- Malay1.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Burmese | 3,907,284 | 99% |
| Thai | 12,436 | 1% |
| English | 6,560 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 1,866 | 1% |
| Malay | 1,796 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aung is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bgz, fire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 17 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2010 | 25 |
| 2011 | 25 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 24 |
| 2015 | 24 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 25 |
| 2018 | 26 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 24 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 16 years between 2005–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ko Aung Myintb. 1935MMbadminton player
- Aung Tunb. 1942MMbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aung?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Aung (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aung have the most bearers?
- Aung is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled aung.
- How common is Aung compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Aung is the 2nd most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
- Is Aung a male or female name?
- Aung is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Aung mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Burmese အောင် (aung).
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aung” — the 2nd most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.