Given name & surname
Trung
“one who is centrally located”
Trung is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is centrally located.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is centrally located.”
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 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Trung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 759
- 759 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 45 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 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 45 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,521 as a first name in 2020; 217 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.
People named Trung
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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