Given name & surname · also Vietnamese
Phung
Phung is a surname from Vietnamese, ultimately from Chinese. It is used in English, French, and Indonesian.
Original Chinese馮
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Phung comes from Vietnamese, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Phung as a surname developed from 馮.
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
Phung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 179
- 16 boys · 163 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 20 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 7 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,967 as a first name in 2020; 8,050 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.
Phung’s family of names
In English usage, Phung as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with FENG. In English usage, Phung as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Vietnamese form Phùng. In Indonesian usage, Phung as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form FENG.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Phung has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
Chinesewhere Phung comes from · 1 name
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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