Given name & surname · also Korean
Chung
Chung is a surname from Korean, ultimately from Chinese. It is used in English, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Indonesian.
Original Korean정
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Chung comes from Korean, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Chung as a surname developed from 丁. In English usage, Chung as a surname developed from 鄭.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1942. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 209
- 198 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,952 as a first name in 2020; 44,132 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chung’s family of names
In English usage, Chung as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with TEE. In English usage, Chung as a surname has a related form in Jung. In English usage, Chung as a surname has a related form in Chang.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Chung has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
28 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 24
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Chengvariant · English
- Cungvariant · Indonesian
- Changvariant · English
- Zongvariant · English
- Jungvariant · English
- Jongvariant · English
- Jeongvariant · English
- Chhunglikely variant
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- Cngvariant · Indonesian
- Tjoengvariant · English, Indonesian
- Tjungvariant · English, Indonesian
- Choongvariant · English
- Cheongvariant · English
- Tiongvariant · English
- Zungvariant · English
- Zhongvariant · English
- Jiangvariant · English
- Chiangvariant · English
- Cheungvariant · English
- Zhangvariant · English
- Zoengvariant · English
- Chiongvariant · English
- Tsungvariant · English
- Tjhungvariant · Indonesian
Across languages 19
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chung
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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