Given name & surname
Dung
“a brave man; a heroic man”
Dung is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “a brave man; a heroic man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “a brave man; a heroic man.”
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 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 756
- 469 boys · 287 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 71 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 girls is 5 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 30 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 14,292 as a first name in 2020; 519 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.
Dung’s family of names
In English usage, Dung has a related form in Yung. In English usage, Dung has a related form in DZUNG.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Dung
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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