Given name & surname
Truong
“from the field near the school”
Truong is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “from the field near the school.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “from the field near the school.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Truong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 236
- 236 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 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 boys is 9 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,602 as a first name in 2020; 45,309 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.
Truong’s family of names
In English usage, Truong as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with ZHANG. In English usage, Truong as a surname has a related form in TROUNG. In English usage, Truong as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Trương.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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