Given name & surname
Seung
“a victorious successor”
Seung is used as a given name and a surname. One Korean interpretation is “a victorious successor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Korean interpretation is “a victorious successor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Korean.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Seung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 79
- 79 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 7 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 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,714 as a first name in 2020; 343 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.
Seung’s family of names
Seung may belong to the same name family as SSEUNG. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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