Cuong

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cuong is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 175◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 30K
  • CACanada1 in 41K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.3K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
206 ●

324K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 16K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cường in TW Taiwan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cuong is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#26486,220238K rec.—listedCuong206
US United States—6,84373K rec.1 in 49K6.8KCuong171
GB United Kingdom—4,1274.3K rec.——Cuong35
AU Australia—3,8973.5K rec.—1Cuong96
CA Canada—2,0532.1K rec.—5Cuong38
RU Russia—274316 rec.——Cuong15
SE Sweden—262△70 rec.1 in 39K262Cuong12
AO Angola#256234246 rec.——Cuong2
IT Italy—216230 rec.——Cuong6
EG Egypt—179176 rec.——Cuong6
NO Norway—17249 rec.—166Cuong8
CN China—138126 rec.——Cuong5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese383K79%
  • English62K13%
  • 10K2%
  • Spanish6.4K1%
  • French1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese382,98679%
English62,45313%
10,2252%
Spanish6,4321%
French1,9391%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cuong is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name98K records spelled Cuong51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Russia

    Also written Cường, Cuông, Cương, Cuơng, Cuộng

  • a separate given name11K records spelled Cuong9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

    Also written Cường, Cương, Cuờng, Cưỡng, Cươǹg

  • Spanish given name8.9K records spelled Cuong17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Cường, Cương, Cuồng, Cưong, Cuông

  • French given name2.7K records spelled Cuong4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Cường, Cương, Cưong

  • Czech given name2.4K records spelled Cuong7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Cường, Cúóng, Cương

  • Chinese given name1.3K records spelled Cuong5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Taiwan, China, Canada

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Cuõng, Cường, Cương

  • Malay given name638 records spelled Cuong6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Cường, Cương

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

020406019801990200046 · 1983

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Cuong in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1976–2003
Yearrecords
19765
19789
197919
198034
198131
198244
198346
198440
198540
198639
198733
198826
198924
199018
199127
199222
199317
199414
199511
19966
19979
19988
19997
20007
20015
20028
20035

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1976–2003. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Trịnh Cương, b. 1686Trương Như Cương, b. 1843Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, b. 1919Joseph Nguyễn Đức Cường, b. 1953Lương Cường, b. 1957Manh Cuong, b. 1960J. C. Tran, b. 1977Doan Viet Cuong, b. 1985Andy Ngo, b. 1986Phạm Cao Cường, b. 1996

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 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Cuong
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.8K#3,098
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020270#3,098
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—262#4,317
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—166#5,511
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—160#3,942
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200858—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202056—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201956—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200956—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200756—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201055—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—54#2,948

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 82 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cuong?
We estimate roughly 7.3 thousand people bear Cuong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Cuong have the most bearers?
Cuong is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled cuong.
How common is Cuong compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Cuong is the 26th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Cuong a male or female name?
Cuong 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Cuong” — the 26th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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