Phuong

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

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

Phuong is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Destino.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 56◐
  • USUnited States1 in 20K
  • CACanada1 in 29K

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

≈19K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
225 ●

757K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.6K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fang in ES Spain, CN China, HK Hong Kong and Phương in MO Macao, IT Italy.

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●

Destino

Sources 1

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Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Phuong is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#61,370,194687K rec.—listedPhuong225
US United States—16,54959K rec.1 in 20K17KPhuong180
CA Canada—2,8963.2K rec.—9Phuong60
GB United Kingdom—2,5652.8K rec.—listedPhuong48
SE Sweden—814△162 rec.1 in 13K814—16
CN China—616975 rec.——Fang27
MY Malaysia—385672 rec.——Phuong13
SG Singapore—346534 rec.——Phuong21
ES Spain—311△84 rec.1 in 161K689Fang8
FI Finland—267△43 rec.1 in 21K982—7
NO Norway—225154 rec.1 in 24K532Phuong16
RU Russia—215312 rec.——Phuong18

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Languages●

  • Vietnamese945K73%
  • English173K13%
  • 63K5%
  • Spanish21K2%
  • French7.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese945,37473%
English172,88113%
63,0815%
Spanish20,5152%
French7,7641%

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◐

Phuong is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name295K records spelled Phuong44 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Phường, Phương, Phượng, Phuöng, Phuonǵ

  • English given name224K records spelled Phuong23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Phương, Phượng, Phuöng, Phuoeng, Phúong

  • a separate given name70K records spelled Phuong9 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Phương, Phu-Ong, Phượng, Phuông, Phuọng

  • Spanish given name36K records spelled Phuong32 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Phương, Phượng, Phuọng, Phựơng, Phưỡng

  • Danish given name13K records spelled Phuong19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Phương, Phựơng, Phượng, Phưong, Phuơng

  • French given name10K records spelled Phuong8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Phương, Phượng, Phủỏng, Phüong, Phưong

  • Czech given name5.6K records spelled Phuong9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Phương, Phượng, Phuöng

  • Finnish given name3.7K records spelled Phuong7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Phượng, Phương, Phứơng, Phuơng

59 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●

0255075100198019902000201087 · 1982

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Phuong in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2013
Yearrecords
19759
197614
197723
197815
197930
198049
198166
198287
198369
198483
198557
198631
198749
198836
198942
199037
199141
199240
199331
199435
199526
199622
199713
19989
199918
200016
20016
200212
20036
200411
20058
20079
20089
20096
20105
20118
20135

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1975–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Phương Mai, b. 1937Phuong Lien, b. 1938Nguyễn Phúc Phương Dung, b. 1942Lan Cao, b. 1961Hà Phương, b. 1972Phương Thanh, b. 1973Lan Phương, b. 1983Maria Tran, b. 1985Fonchi, b. 1990Nguyễn Công Phượng, b. 1995

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 42 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Phuong
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202017K#1,583
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#1,583
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,588
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,834
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,212
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—982#1,603
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—814#1,973
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—532#2,415
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—267—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022231—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021231—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024229—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 365 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Phuong?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Phuong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Phuong have the most bearers?
Phuong is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled phuong.
How common is Phuong compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Phuong is the 6th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Phuong a male or female name?
Phuong 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 Phuong mean?
Recorded meaning: Destino
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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, “Phuong” — the 6th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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