Aung
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɔŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Burmese အောင် (aung).
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 75(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.8K
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 Aung 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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Borrowed from Burmese အောင် (aung).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aung 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #1 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 75 | 2.8M | Aung | 147 |
| US United States | — | 31,210as Ng | 1 in 11K | 33K | Aung | 234 |
| MY Malaysia | #217 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1.7K | Aung | 46 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Aung | 19 |
| SG Singapore | #133 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Aung | 87 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,806as Eng | 1 in 3K | 1.8K | — | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,272as Eng | 1 in 8K | 1.3K | — | 9 |
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: This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Aung 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 bgz, fire
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Htin Aungb. 1909MMBurmese scholar (1909–1978)
- Win Aungb. 1944MMBurmese politician (1944-2009)
- Tin Myint Aungb. 1967MMBurmese association football player
- MiMi Aungb. 1968USAmerican electronic engineer at NASA
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,188 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 626 | #34,259 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 220 | #7,131 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 60 | #10,970 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Aung mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Burmese အောင် (aung). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Aung?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɔŋ/ (IPA) for Burmese.
- In which country does Aung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 758 thousand people named Aung in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aung.
- How common is the name Aung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,210 people named Ng in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Aung compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Aung is the most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aung?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aungThe 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, “Aung” — the most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.