Dung
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dung 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. In Vietnamese, recorded as to tolerate.
- 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)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107 (inferred from the name graph)
≈920,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, 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)
nickname from OE dung ‘manure, filth’, or metonymic for DUNGER; first attested Hugh Dung 1184
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dung is read(measured from records)
Dung is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Vietnamese77%
to tolerate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
nickname from OE dung ‘manure, filth’, or metonymic for DUNGER; first attested Hugh Dung 1184
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Manure; animal excrement.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
kpd or kpo, ndo- 1
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dung 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 | #12 | ≈920,000 est. | ≈1 in 107 | listed | Dung | 235 |
| CN China | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Dung | 11 |
| US United States | — | 14,292 | 1 in 23K | 7.9K | Dung | 232 |
| AO Angola | #298 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Dung | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Dung | 39 |
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)
Dung is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
lived on a piece of raised dry land in marshy surround¬ ings, or habitation name from any of the various places named with the dial, term for such a patch of land, MLG dung. Pairs.: Eng.: Dukes. (From i only): Fr.: Auduc. It.: Del Duca (Naples). Vars.: Dungs, Dungen, Dunk. Donk; Dunkmann; Von der Dunk. Dulanty see Delahunty
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In enm, alternative form of donge (“dung”)
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)
- Emperor Zhezong of Songb. 1077CNnot in their usual name7th emperor of the Song Dynasty
- Chen Rongb. 1200CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter from the Song Dynasty (1200-1266)
- Mạc Thái Tổb. 1483VNnot in their usual nameEmperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Mạc dynasty
- Zhao Lirongb. 1928CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress (1928–2000)
- Nguyễn Phúc Phương Dungb. 1942VNVietnamese princess (born 1942)
- Stephanie Murphyb. 1978USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from Florida (born 1978)
- Tammy Chenb. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Yang Rongb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress (1981-)
- Midub. 1989VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actress and model
- Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dungb. 1993VNVietnamese association football 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 36 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #1,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.3K | #1,955 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 5 | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | WGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Dung mean?
- In Vietnamese, to tolerate
- Where does the name Dung come from?
- nickname from OE dung ‘manure, filth’, or metonymic for DUNGER; first attested Hugh Dung 1184 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Dung a male or female name?
- Dung 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.
- In which country does Dung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 919 thousand people named Dung in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dung.
- How common is the name Dung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,292 people named Dung in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Dung compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Dung 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, “Dung” — the 12th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.