Given name & surname
Tung
“resembling the coniferous tree”
Tung is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “resembling the coniferous tree.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “resembling the coniferous tree.”
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
Tung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 221
- 221 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,572 as a first name in 2020; 4,626 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.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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