Given name
Nhung
“resembling velvet”
Nhung is used as a given name. One Vietnamese interpretation is “resembling velvet.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “resembling velvet.”
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 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nhung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 215
- 0 boys · 215 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 19 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 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,048 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.
People named Nhung
- Hồng NhungVietnamese singer (born 1970)
- Phi NhungVietnamese singer (1972–2021)
- Bùi Thị NhungVietnamese athleteborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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