Phở
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pho (a soup made with bánh phở noodles, usually served with beef, pork, or chicken, similar to ramen)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phở is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 250K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
- NONorway1 in 456K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
1,333 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pho in US United States.
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)
pho (a soup made with bánh phở noodles, usually served with beef, pork, or chicken, similar to ramen).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phở 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 | 1,333 | 1 in 250K | 1.5K | Pho | 50 |
| AR Argentina | 27 | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | 1 |
1,333 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Phở is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of pho (“Vietnamese soup”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phở mean, and where does it come from?
- pho (a soup made with bánh phở noodles, usually served with beef, pork, or chicken, similar to ramen). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Phở a male or female name?
- Phở 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 Phở have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Phở, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pho.
- Where is Phở most common?
- Phở is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 250 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Phở?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,333 people named Phở in 2010, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Phở?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ph%E1%BB%9FThe 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, “Phở”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.