Given name & surname
Hung
“a hero”
Hung is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “a hero.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “a hero.”
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
Hung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,018
- 1,018 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 88 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 88 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 18,256 as a first name in 2020; 7,499 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.
Hung’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Hung as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Hong. In Filipino usage, Hung as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Ang.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Xiongequivalent
- Kongequivalent
- Hongdoublet · Tagalog, English
- Angdoublet · Tagalog
- 熊equivalent
- 孔equivalent
- 洪equivalent
- 紅equivalent
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People named Hung
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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