Dũng

given name · Latin script

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

Dũng is a 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: Hán-Việt from 勇, ‘bravery; valor’; a learned name chosen for auspicious meaning.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 107(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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈920,000 people, est.

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 107 (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dung in VN Vietnam, US United States, NG Nigeria 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)

Hán-Việt from 勇, ‘bravery; valor’; a learned name chosen for auspicious meaning.

Sources 1

  • Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dũng 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 Dũng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#12≈920,000 est.≈1 in 107listedDung235
CN China—≈72,000 est.≈1 in 19K—Dung11
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

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dũng is also recorded as 5 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, Dùng, Dựng, Dunǵ, Ďûñg

  • Khmer given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cambodia, India, Nigeria

    Also written Dung, D̴̛̙̠́̇̈́̀̕ṷ̸̰̜͎̮̲͖̩̮̮̰̞͕̃̽̉͋ͅñ̵̜͎̑̈́̉̀̋͆̒̐͆̏̒̕g̴͈̲͕̫̣̖͇̱͈̞̤̽͊̌͊̅̿̓͊̾̅͑̍͠ͅ, Dụng, Dùng

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Dung, Dụng, Dừng, Düng, Dựng

  • Hindi given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Nigeria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Dung, Dứng, Dùng, Düng, Dựng

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Dững, Dung, Düng, Dúng, Dụng

32 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dũng 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 Vietnamese, ‘brave, courageous’; 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)

1700180019002000Andrew Dung-Lac, b. 1795Van Tien Dung, b. 1917Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, b. 1949Trịnh Đình Dũng, b. 1956Việt Dzũng, b. 1958Andrew Lam, b. 1964Đỗ Hùng Dũng, b. 1993Bùi Tiến Dũng, b. 1995Nguyễn Hữu Dũng, b. 1995Bùi Tiến Dũng, b. 1997

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 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Dũng
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VN VietnamVietnamese given names (Kaggle)———
VN VietnamWGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names———

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 Dũng mean, and where does it come from?
Hán-Việt from 勇, ‘bravery; valor’; a learned name chosen for auspicious meaning. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
Is Dũng a male or female name?
Dũng is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What are other forms of the name Dũng?
In the etymology graph, Yong is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Dũng have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 919 thousand people named Dũng in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dung.
How common is the name Dũng?
In the United States, the national register counted 14,292 people named Dũng in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Dũng compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Dũng 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, “Dũng” — the 12th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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