Chŭng
given name · Latin script
Chŭng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 85th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From either Cantonese 鍾／钟 (Zung¹) or Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng), via English Chung.
- USUnited States1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 92Kas 청
- GYGuyana1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chŭng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
43,110 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chung in US United States, KR South Korea, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From either Cantonese 鍾／钟 (Zung¹) or Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng), via English Chung.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chŭng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 43,110 | 1 in 7.7K | 44K | Chung | 289 |
| KR South Korea | #85 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Chung | 213 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 535 | 1 in 32K | 535 | Chung | 15 |
| GY Guyana | — | 533 | 1 in 1.4K | 533 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 433 | 1 in 105K | 433 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 203 | 1 in 41K | 203 | — | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 160 | 1 in 35K | 160 | — | 3 |
43,110 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chŭng mean, and where does it come from?
- From either Cantonese 鍾／钟 (Zung¹) or Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng), via English Chung. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Chŭng a male or female name?
- Chŭng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chŭng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Chŭng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chung.
- Where is Chŭng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chŭng is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chŭng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,110 people named Chŭng in 2010, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Chŭng compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Chŭng is the 85th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chŭng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C5%ADngThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chŭng” — the 85th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.