Trung
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Trung is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: middle.
- VNVietnam1 in 133◐
- USUnited States1 in 53K
- CACanada1 in 64K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.0K ●
- Sources
- 224 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 10 countries
402K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
middle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 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 | #20 | 631,719 | 371K rec. | — | listed | Trung | 224 |
| US United States | — | 6,281 | 27K rec. | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Trung | 151 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,306 | 1.4K rec. | — | 1 | Trung | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,039 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Trung | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 304△ | 22 rec. | 1 in 34K | 304 | — | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 170 | 212 rec. | — | — | Trung | 17 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 116 | 21 rec. | — | — | Trung | 25 |
| TH Thailand | — | 96 | 89 rec. | — | — | Trung | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 92 | 78 rec. | 1 in 188K | 92 | Trung | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | 90 | 149 rec. | — | — | Trung | 14 |
| AO Angola | #624 | 87 | 90 rec. | — | — | Trung | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | 84 | 93 rec. | — | — | Trung | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese657K85%
- English60K8%
- 16K2%
- Spanish7.1K1%
- French2.9K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 656,822 | 85% |
| English | 59,557 | 8% |
| 16,338 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 7,052 | 1% |
| French | 2,942 | 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●
Trung 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: trung, ở giữa/trung thành; dùng trong bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương và Diên Khánh vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
€P Trung B là giữa.
as a nameMẹo giải nghĩa từ Hán Việt và chữa lỗi chính tả
In Albanian, trunk (of a tree)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 21 |
| 1980 | 29 |
| 1981 | 45 |
| 1982 | 37 |
| 1983 | 36 |
| 1984 | 33 |
| 1985 | 39 |
| 1986 | 37 |
| 1987 | 38 |
| 1988 | 30 |
| 1989 | 34 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 41 |
| 1992 | 29 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 22 |
| 1995 | 23 |
| 1996 | 27 |
| 1997 | 19 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1976–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Li Zhongb. 920not in their usual nameSouthern Tang poet, active 920-974
- Huang Zhongb. 1226not in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 12907
- Li Zhongb. 1478not in their usual nameMing dynasty politician, 1478-1542
- Masumi Tanakab. 1936JPnot in their usual nameteacher
- Lü Zhongb. 1940CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Liang Zhongtangb. 1948CNnot in their usual nameChinese demographer
- Trung Trung Lêb. 1950VNVietnamese cyclist
- Nam-Trung Nguyenb. 1970VNVietnamese scientist
- Vương Quốc Trungb. 1990VNVietnamese association football player
- Pan Zhongnot in their usual namepolitician
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 34 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.3K | #3,270 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 376 | #2,398 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 304 | #3,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 240 | #3,270 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 228 | #4,372 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 217 | #91,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 203 | #90,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 164 | #101,654 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 96 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 93 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 92 | #4,627 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 90 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 137 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Trung?
- We estimate roughly 7.0 thousand people bear Trung (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Trung have the most bearers?
- Trung is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled trung.
- How common is Trung compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Trung is the 20th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Trung a male or female name?
- Trung 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 Trung mean?
- Recorded meaning: middle
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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, “Trung” — the 20th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.