Huong

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

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

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Huong 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 name154K records spelled Huong41 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Hương, Hường, Huöng, Hųőng, Hữong

• a separate given name39K records spelled Huong7 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Hường, Hương, Hưởng, Hướng, Huòng

• French given name5.0K records spelled Huong11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

  Also written Hương, Hường, Hưởng, Húòng, Hưong

• Czech given name3.7K records spelled Huong15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

  Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

  Also written Hương, Hưởng, Hường, Hüöng, Huóng

• Finnish given name1.4K records spelled Huong8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Hường, Hửơng, Hứơng, Huơng, Hương

• Indonesian given name1.3K records spelled Huong4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Indonesia, Singapore

  Also written Hưởng, Hướng, Hường

• Danish given name1.1K records spelled Huong12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Hừơng, Hưởng, Hương, Huơng

53 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.

Other recorded senses●

Huong is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In cdo, ‘hudéng-hud FE specks flitting before the eyes

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, bright, dazzling, splendid, (hti “7G hudng)

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, a screen, a curtain, a shop-sign

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, a x a hard, white-skinned bamboo

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, leisure, to be idle, careless

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, oppressed with cares, hurried

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1976–2011. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hồ Xuân Hươngb. 1772VNVietnamese poet (1772–1822)
• Tiny Yongb. 1944FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
• Dương Thu Hươngb. 1947VNVietnamese writer and politician
• Eva Nguyen Binhb. 1970FRnot in their usual nameFrench diplomat
• Hồ Quỳnh Hươngb. 1980VNVietnamese singer
• Luu Thi Diem Huongb. 1990VNMiss World Vietnamese 2010
• Lê Thu Thanh Hươngb. 1991VNVietnamese association football player
• Văn Mai Hươngb. 1994VNVietnamese singer (born 1994)
• Hoàng Thị HươngVNVietnamese sports shooter
• Hoc Phinot in their usual nameVietnamese imperial concubine

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 97 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Huong?

We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Huong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Huong have the most bearers?

Huong is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled huong.

How common is Huong compared with other names?

In Vietnam, Huong is the 16th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.

Is Huong a male or female name?

Huong is a female 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.