Choung
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃʌŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Choung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 648K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 648K (inferred from the name graph)
513 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Choung 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 513 | 1 in 648K | 544 | Choung | 79 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | #372 | — | — | — | Choung | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | — | Choung | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | — | Choung | 11 |
513 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Chung Ju-yungb. 1915KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businessman (1915–2001)
- Myung-whun Chungb. 1953KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pianist and conductor
- Jung Woo-sungb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Jamie Chungb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Jung Yu-mib. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1983)
- Jong Tae-seb. 1984KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean association football player
- Jung So-minb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- J-Hopeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, dancer, songwriter, and record producer
- Jung Ho-yeonb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model and actress
- Krystal Jungb. 1994USnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-American singer, actress and model
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 544 | #42,858 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 513 | #42,308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 485 | #42,134 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #27,610 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Choung?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃʌŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Choung have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 513 people named Choung, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled choung.
- Where is Choung most common?
- Choung is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 648 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Choung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 513 people named Choung in 2010, about 1 in 648 thousand residents.
- How common is Choung compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Choung is the 372nd most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Choung?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/choungThe 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, “Choung” — the 372nd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.