Sung
given name · Korean · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sung is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Korean and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: past participle of sing.
- AUAustralia1 in 22K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 33K
- CACanada1 in 49K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.8K ●
- Sources
- 315 ●
- 1 in 35K ◐
across 6 countries
197K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sueng in PE Peru.
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●
past participle of sing
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,146 | 161K rec. | 1 in 54K | 9K | Sung | 315 |
| AU Australia | — | 5,259 | 8.3K rec. | — | 1 | Sung | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,936 | 5.9K rec. | — | — | Sung | 94 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,972 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Sung | 38 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,690 | 3.9K rec. | — | 5 | Sung | 104 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 1,505 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Sung | 120 |
| DE Germany | — | 977 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Sung | 64 |
| HK Hong Kong | #357 | 529 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Sung | 64 |
| CN China | — | 400 | 244 rec. | — | — | Sung | 38 |
| IT Italy | — | 358 | 787 rec. | — | — | Sung | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 292△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 35K | 292 | — | 10 |
| PH Philippines | — | 277 | 498 rec. | — | — | Sung | 22 |
Roughly 6.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 54K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Korean119K40%
- English103K35%
- 18K6%
- Spanish12K4%
- Vietnamese9.8K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 119,235 | 40% |
| English | 102,514 | 35% |
| 17,540 | 6% | |
| Spanish | 11,521 | 4% |
| Vietnamese | 9,824 | 3% |
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●
Sung 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 English, Chinese dynasty
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In tft, alternative form of sungi (“new”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aot, remembrance, thought, mind, brain, intelligence, spirit, life
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a surname from Hakka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, sycamore, fig
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 |
|---|---|
| 1946 | 8 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 16 |
| 1977 | 12 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 16 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 15 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 19 |
| 1990 | 17 |
| 1991 | 19 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 12 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 15 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2011 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1946–2011. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- An Ki-songb. 1898KPnot in their usual namepolitician
- Seong Moyb. 1921USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American painter and printmaker (1921-2013)
- Park Seungb. 1936KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean economist
- Kim Songb. 1959KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean diplomat, permanent representative to the UN
- Li Xiaoshuangb. 1973CNnot in their usual namegymnast
- Seungho Moonb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professor (born 1973)
- Seung Hong Choib. 1975KRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0412-2270)
- Lee Sung Jinb. 1981KRSouth Korean writer and director
- Song Zhangb. 2000USnot in their usual nameresearcher in mechanical engineering at Purdue University
- Seong Ho Parkb. 2000KRnot in their usual nameKorean radiologist
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 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9K | #3,831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.4K | #4,801 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.1K | #2,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #2,522 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 292 | #3,997 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 262 | #21,449 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 231 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 201 | #36,677 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 196 | #11,895 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 177 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 157 | #22,935 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 217 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sung?
- We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Sung (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sung have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.1 thousand people bear Sung in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sung.
- How common is Sung compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Sung is the 357th most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
- Is Sung a male or female name?
- Sung 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 Sung mean?
- Recorded meaning: past participle of sing
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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, “Sung” — the 357th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.