Given name & surname

Cung

Cung is a surname. It is used in English and Indonesian.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Cung isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Cung through the years

Babies since 1880
104
104 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2011
11 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−85%
Cooling
02462025Highest share 20110.0
Cung in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2010–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,008 as a first name in 2020; 1,789 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.

Cung’s family of names

In Indonesian usage, Cung as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with CHUANG. In Indonesian usage, Cung as a surname has a related form in CHUNG. In Indonesian usage, Cung as a surname has a related form in CHUNG.

Walk Cung’s family in the name graph

CungKungChungTjungTjoengCngTjhungChuang

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 5

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Cung

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Cung, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Turkish · Modern

Candan

“a sincere man”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Kaydn

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>99% boys

Modern

Kahden

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Tryg

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Carrson

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>99% boys

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Cadian

“rhythmic and melodious; a musical woman” · “rhythmic and melodious; a musical man”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Camdon

“of the enclosed valley” · “from the winding valley”

13Very rareCooling

>99% boys

Modern

Cadon

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Cung’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Cung