Given name & surname
Phuong
“one who recognizes his destiny”
Phuong is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who recognizes his destiny.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who recognizes his destiny.”
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
Phuong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,315
- 282 boys · 1,033 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 108 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 21% boys.
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 87 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 20,364 as a first name in 2020; 1,570 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.
Phuong’s family of names
Phuong has a related form in Phoenix. In English usage, Phuong as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Phương.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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