Hùng
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hán-Việt from 雄, ‘heroic; brave; male’; a learned name chosen for auspicious meaning
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Hùng is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 510
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 560
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 151 (inferred from the name graph)
≈670,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hung in VN Vietnam, US United States, HK Hong Kong and 3 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)Hán-Việt from 雄, ‘heroic; brave; male’; a learned name chosen for auspicious meaning.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hùng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #11 | ≈670,000 est. | ≈1 in 151 | listed | Hung | 229 |
| TW Taiwan | #818 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 506 | — | Hung | 175 |
| US United States | — | 18,256 | 1 in 18K | 17K | Hung | 267 |
| HK Hong Kong | #12 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 563 | — | Hung | 142 |
| MY Malaysia | #548 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Hung | 69 |
| MO Macao | #20 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Hung | 5 |
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: the vn-kaggle-given register; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Hùng is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Han-Viet “heroic, mighty”; cited as a shared-name pattern between brothers.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Trong bút hiệu Hùng Nguyên, nghĩa là mạnh mẽ; cũng gợi danh hiệu các vua Hùng.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, ‘strong, mighty’; used as a male name.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nguyễn Sinh Hùngb. 1946VNVietnamese politician
- Joseph Do Manh Hungb. 1957VNCatholic bishop
- Việt Dzũngb. 1958USnot in their usual nameVietnamese-American singer-songwriter
- Trần Anh Hùngb. 1962VNFrench-Vietnamese filmmaker (born 1962)
- Lý Hùngb. 1969VNactor
- Hung Caob. 1971USAmerican politician and Navy veteran (born 1971)
- Nguyễn Phi Hùngb. 1977VNVietnamese singer and actor
- Nguyen Van Hungb. 1980VNVietnamese taekwondo practitioner and basketball player (born 1980)
- Đỗ Hùng Dũngb. 1993VNassociation football player
- Phạm Mạnh Hùngb. 1993VNVietnamese footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hùng mean, and where does it come from?
- Hán-Việt from 雄, ‘heroic; brave; male’; a learned name chosen for auspicious meaning. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Hùng a male or female name?
- Hùng 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 Hùng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 668 thousand people named Hùng in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hung.
- How common is the name Hùng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,256 people named Hùng in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Hùng compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hùng is the 11th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hùng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B9ngThe 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, “Hùng” — the 11th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.