Hung
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hung is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead).
- VNVietnam1 in 91◐
- HKHong Kong1 in 295
- MYMalaysia1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈19K ●
- Sources
- 269 ●
- 1 in 7.6K ◐
across 10 countries
634K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
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●
simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 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 | #11 | 938,021 | 467K rec. | — | listed | Hung | 226 |
| US United States | — | 17,325 | 110K rec. | 1 in 19K | 17K | Hung | 269 |
| HK Hong Kong | #11 | 12,588 | 13K rec. | — | — | Hung | 121 |
| TW Taiwan | #827 | 11,632 | 15K rec. | — | — | Hung | 164 |
| MY Malaysia | #607 | 8,415 | 8.2K rec. | — | — | Hung | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,693 | 6.2K rec. | — | listed | Hung | 76 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,224 | 5.5K rec. | — | 1 | Hung | 89 |
| CN China | — | 1,717 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Hung | 73 |
| EG Egypt | — | 620 | 690 rec. | — | — | Hung | 11 |
| SG Singapore | #816 | 583 | 622 rec. | — | — | Hung | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | #523 | 544 | 669 rec. | — | — | Hung | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 520△ | 82 rec. | 1 in 20K | 520 | — | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese738K63%
- English197K17%
- Chinese66K6%
- 48K4%
- Spanish24K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 737,668 | 63% |
| English | 196,892 | 17% |
| Chinese | 66,237 | 6% |
| 47,890 | 4% | |
| Spanish | 24,383 | 2% |
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●
Hung 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.
In Vietnamese, violent when getting angry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
2. Chinese ?L: variant of Kong
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
3. Chinese variant of Xiong
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, h-prothesized form of ung
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 | 16 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 23 |
| 1979 | 38 |
| 1980 | 51 |
| 1981 | 68 |
| 1982 | 88 |
| 1983 | 65 |
| 1984 | 63 |
| 1985 | 40 |
| 1986 | 38 |
| 1987 | 36 |
| 1988 | 32 |
| 1989 | 25 |
| 1990 | 30 |
| 1991 | 33 |
| 1992 | 28 |
| 1993 | 37 |
| 1994 | 20 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 24 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1975–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Cao Hongb. 169not in their usual nameChinese military general (died 232)
- Cao Xiongb. 195CNnot in their usual nameson of Chinese Han dynasty warlord Cao Cao
- Murong Hongb. 355not in their usual nameChinese prince
- Yao Hongb. 388not in their usual nameLater Qin Emperor
- Pak Hongb. 1534not in their usual nameJoseon military official
- Ren Xiongb. 1823CNnot in their usual nameChinese Qing dynasty painter (1823–1857)
- Koh Sok Hiongb. 1916SGnot in their usual nameThe wife of Wee Kim Wee, the fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993
- Hung Liub. 1948USChinese-American artist (1948-2021)
- Heungho Moonb. 1958KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professor on international relations and political science
- Susan Whitfieldb. 1960GBnot in their usual nameEnglish historian
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 54 sources across 26 countries.
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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 223 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hung?
- We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Hung (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hung have the most bearers?
- Hung is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled hung.
- How common is Hung compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hung is the 11th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Hung a male or female name?
- Hung 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 Hung mean?
- Recorded meaning: simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)
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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, “Hung” — the 11th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.