Pham

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Pham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Phạm.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 49(inferred from the name graph)
  • AOAngola≈1 in 599
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 2.4K

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)

≈2,000,000 people, est.

#289 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

Sources
488 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Phạm in MO Macao.

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 Vietnamese Phạm.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pham 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 Pham is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#3≈2,000,000 est.≈1 in 49228Pham267
CN China—≈420,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Pham20
US United States#37884,3201 in 3.9K101KPham488
AO Angola#23≈54,000 est.≈1 in 599—Pham7
GB United Kingdom#636≈12,000 est.≈1 in 5.4K1.1KPham159
AU Australia#174≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K1Pham240
NO Norway—2,8421 in 1.9K2.8K—51
MO Macao#172≈730 est.≈1 in 845—Phạm4

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 page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pham is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Canada

    Also written Phạm, Phḁm, P̵̫͗h̶͔̓ạ̴̗͐m̴͙͋, P̷͈̮̬̫̐͐̾̌h̵̛̝̪̥͐͋̚ͅạ̴͔̞̼͐̀͛͝ͅm̶̙̞̖͕̑͋̂̌, P̶̵̣̫̲͓̺̖̩͉͉̖͈̆̇̌̃ͥ͂͢h̊̄ͨ̅̇ͮ̈̊̋̉̔͛̒͆̓̀̚͏̴̛̖͎̻͈͈̜͕̗̦̭̖̲̪͔̻̘͜ą̣̮̮͈͎̺̟͇͙̪̰ͭ̍̐̄̈́ͥ̔̍̔̌ͧ̚͠m̸̢̨̢̗̰̖̭̤͈͔͓̖̘̜̠̥̭̫̽ͥ̑͒̈͑͜

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Phḁm, Phẩm, Phấm, Phạm

  • Spanish surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Phạm, Phąm, Phậm, Phẩm, Phẫm

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Phạm, Phâm, Phẩm, Pĥåm

  • Czech surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Phạm, Phám, Phąm

  • Danish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Phạm, Phẩm

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Sweden, Canada

    Also written Phạm, Phẩm

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, New Zealand

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Phạm, Phẩm

70 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)

Pham 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.

  • In bdq, blood

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In crw, eight

    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)

19201940196019802000Frédéric Pham, b. 1938Duc Truong Pham, b. 1952Thierry Pham, b. 1962Anne-Laure Pham, b. 1981Khuê Pham, b. 1982Tiffany Pham, b. 1986Tommy Pham, b. 1988Florentin Phạm Huy Tiến, b. 1997Ana, b. 1999

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 48 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Pham
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020101K#305
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201084K#370
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200060K#498
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.8K#311
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20251.4K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20241.4K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20231.4K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20221.4K—
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20021.1K#6,355
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Pham mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Vietnamese Phạm. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Pham have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 million people named Pham in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pham.
How common is the name Pham?
In the United States, the national register counted 84,320 people named Pham in 2010, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
How common is Pham compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Pham is the 3rd most common surname of 62,915 surnames 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, “Pham” — the 3rd most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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