Dững

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dững is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sino-Vietnamese word from 容 (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese 婦容/妇容 (phụ dung, “wifely look”).

  • VNVietnam≈1 in 110(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 23K
  • USUnited States1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈920,000 people, est.

Record sources
235 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 107 (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dung in VN Vietnam, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.

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)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 容 (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese 婦容/妇容 (phụ dung, “wifely look”).

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dững 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.

Where Dững is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#12≈920,000 est.≈1 in 107listedDung235
US United States—14,2921 in 23K7.9KDung232
AO Angola#298≈11,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Dung2
NG Nigeria—≈9,500 est.≈1 in 23K—Dung39
GB United Kingdom—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 24KlistedDung52

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Dững is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Canada

    Also written Dung, Dũng, Dùng, Dựng, Dunǵ

  • English given name114 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, China, Australia

    Languages: English, Chinese, Malay

    Also written Ying, 의영, หญิง, Dung, Dính

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Dung, Dũng, Dụng

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dững under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dững mean, and where does it come from?
Sino-Vietnamese word from 容 (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese 婦容/妇容 (phụ dung, “wifely look”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
Is Dững a male or female name?
Dững 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 Dững have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 919 thousand people named Dững in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dung.
How common is the name Dững?
In the United States, the national register counted 14,292 people named Dững in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Dững compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Dững is the 12th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dững” — the 12th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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