Dung
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dung is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname from OE dung ‘manure, filth’, or metonymic for DUNGER; first attested Hugh Dung 1184.
- VNVietnam1 in 100◐
- AUAustralia1 in 18K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.6K ●
- Sources
- 228 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 9 countries
599K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dũng in SG Singapore, 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●
nickname from OE dung ‘manure, filth’, or metonymic for DUNGER; first attested Hugh Dung 1184
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #12 | 853,811 | 414K rec. | — | listed | Dung | 228 |
| US United States | — | 7,945 | 148K rec. | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Dung | 192 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,650 | 10K rec. | — | listed | Dung | 37 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,268 | 5.7K rec. | — | 1 | Dung | 101 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,989 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Dung | 38 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,742 | 3.5K rec. | — | 1 | Dung | 93 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 2,584 | 5.5K rec. | — | — | Dung | 40 |
| IT Italy | — | 547 | 721 rec. | — | — | Dung | 10 |
| AO Angola | #96 | 547 | 667 rec. | — | — | Dung | 2 |
| IN India | — | 422 | 1K rec. | — | 1.4K | Dung | 30 |
| RU Russia | — | 402 | 567 rec. | — | — | Dung | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 400△ | 68 rec. | 1 in 26K | 400 | — | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese746K76%
- English103K11%
- 42K4%
- Spanish14K1%
- French4.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 745,591 | 76% |
| English | 102,738 | 11% |
| 41,924 | 4% | |
| Spanish | 14,190 | 1% |
| French | 4,763 | 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●
Dung is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
lived on a piece of raised dry land in marshy surround¬ ings, or habitation name from any of the various places named with the dial, term for such a patch of land, MLG dung. Pairs.: Eng.: Dukes. (From i only): Fr.: Auduc. It.: Del Duca (Naples). Vars.: Dungs, Dungen, Dunk. Donk; Dunkmann; Von der Dunk. Dulanty see Delahunty
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Manure; animal excrement.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, to tolerate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, kpd or kpo, ndo- 1
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In enm, alternative form of donge (“dung”)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 17 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 18 |
| 1980 | 24 |
| 1981 | 40 |
| 1982 | 48 |
| 1983 | 34 |
| 1984 | 40 |
| 1985 | 34 |
| 1986 | 26 |
| 1987 | 26 |
| 1988 | 18 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 2000 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1975–2000. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Emperor Zhezong of Songb. 1077CNnot in their usual name7th emperor of the Song Dynasty
- Chen Rongb. 1200CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter from the Song Dynasty (1200-1266)
- Mạc Thái Tổb. 1483VNnot in their usual nameEmperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Mạc dynasty
- Zhao Lirongb. 1928CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress (1928–2000)
- Nguyễn Phúc Phương Dungb. 1942VNVietnamese princess (born 1942)
- Stephanie Murphyb. 1978USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from Florida (born 1978)
- Tammy Chenb. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Yang Rongb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress (1981-)
- Midub. 1989VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actress and model
- Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dungb. 1993VNVietnamese association football 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 36 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #1,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.3K | #1,955 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,266 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1K | #26 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 519 | #44,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 493 | #41,596 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 416 | #50,275 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 400 | #3,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 246 | #3,059 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 232 | #4,296 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 188 | #3,592 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 162 | #5,577 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 118 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dung?
- We estimate roughly 8.6 thousand people bear Dung (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dung have the most bearers?
- Dung is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled dung.
- How common is Dung compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Dung is the 12th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Dung a male or female name?
- Dung is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Dung mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from OE dung ‘manure, filth’, or metonymic for DUNGER; first attested Hugh Dung 1184
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dung” — the 12th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.