Given name
Cuong
“one who is healthy and prosperous”
Cuong is used as a given name. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is healthy and prosperous.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is healthy and prosperous.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cuong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 554
- 554 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 46 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 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 46 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,113 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cuong’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
If you love Cuong, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“the phoenix”
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