Phong
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phong is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: maple.
- VNVietnam1 in 304◐
- USUnited States1 in 57K
- CACanada1 in 78K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.2K ●
- Sources
- 201 ●
- 1 in 32K ◐
across 8 countries
177K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
maple
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 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 | #54 | 279,754 | 155K rec. | — | listed | Phong | 201 |
| US United States | — | 5,786 | 18K rec. | 1 in 57K | 5.8K | Phong | 148 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,070 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Phong | 37 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 696 | 729 rec. | — | — | Phong | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 657 | 718 rec. | — | — | Phong | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 167△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 61K | 167 | — | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | 102 | 184 rec. | — | — | Phong | 19 |
| RU Russia | — | 75 | 102 rec. | — | — | Phong | 12 |
| FI Finland | — | 72△ | 15 rec. | 1 in 77K | 192 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 68 | 56 rec. | 1 in 254K | 68 | Phong | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 66 | 48 rec. | — | — | Phong | 21 |
| IT Italy | — | 49 | 60 rec. | — | — | Phong | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese298K76%
- English53K14%
- 13K3%
- Spanish5.3K1%
- French2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 297,951 | 76% |
| English | 53,268 | 14% |
| 12,744 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 5,330 | 1% |
| French | 1,999 | 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●
Phong is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: phong, phong thái/phong thịnh; trong bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Yếu tố trong chữ Hán của tên Diễm; thành phần ghép với Sắc.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In ace, pertaining to the smell of armpits
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 | 7 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 20 |
| 1980 | 34 |
| 1981 | 41 |
| 1982 | 49 |
| 1983 | 45 |
| 1984 | 51 |
| 1985 | 49 |
| 1986 | 38 |
| 1987 | 41 |
| 1988 | 49 |
| 1989 | 30 |
| 1990 | 34 |
| 1991 | 43 |
| 1992 | 47 |
| 1993 | 35 |
| 1994 | 23 |
| 1995 | 29 |
| 1996 | 24 |
| 1997 | 17 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 50 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tien Fengb. 1928TWnot in their usual nameChinese actor (1928–2015)
- Bùi Tường Phongb. 1942VNComputer graphics researcher and pioneer (1942-1975)
- Johnnie Tob. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker (born 1955)
- Li Fengb. 1962USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American academic and sinologist (born 1962)
- Zu Fengb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Shiung Fengb. 1978JPnot in their usual nameTaiwanese go player
- Zhu Fengb. 1978CNnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Raymond Lamb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Wang Fengb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
- Nguyễn Hải Phongb. 1982VNVietnamese songwriter, singer, composer and record producer (born 1982)
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 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #3,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 842 | #29,804 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 707 | #32,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 554 | #37,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 490 | #3,373 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 192 | #3,553 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 167 | #5,951 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 112 | #7,210 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 72 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 68 | #5,567 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 49 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Phong?
- We estimate roughly 6.2 thousand people bear Phong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Phong have the most bearers?
- Phong is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled phong.
- How common is Phong compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Phong is the 54th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Phong a male or female name?
- Phong 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 Phong mean?
- Recorded meaning: maple
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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, “Phong” — the 54th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.