Cuong
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cuong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 212(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 35K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 37K
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)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuong 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 | #29 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | listed | Cuong | 209 |
| CN China | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Cuong | 5 |
| US United States | — | 7,113 | 1 in 47K | 6.8K | Cuong | 204 |
| AO Angola | #446 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Cuong | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Cuong | 41 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 5 | Cuong | 46 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1 | Cuong | 105 |
| IS Iceland | — | 14 | 1 in 25K | 14 | — | 4 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Trịnh Cươngb. 1686VN5th Trịnh Lord
- Trương Như Cươngb. 1843VNVietnamese politician
- Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cươngb. 1919VNCatholic bishop
- Joseph Nguyễn Đức Cườngb. 1953VNVietnamese Catholic bishop
- Lương Cườngb. 1957VNPresident of Vietnam from 2024 to 2026
- Manh Cuongb. 1960VNVietnamese actor and director
- J. C. Tranb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican poker player
- Doan Viet Cuongb. 1985VNVietnamese football player
- Andy Ngob. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican right-wing social-media influencer
- Phạm Cao Cườngb. 1996VNbadminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.8K | #3,098 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 270 | #3,098 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 26 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Cuong a male or female name?
- Cuong 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 Cuong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 465 thousand people named Cuong in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuong.
- How common is the name Cuong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,113 people named Cuong in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuong compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Cuong is the 29th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cuong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cuongThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cuong” — the 29th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.