Huong
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hwɔŋ͡m˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 169(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 26K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
≈580,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huong 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 | #17 | ≈580,000 est. | ≈1 in 169 | listed | Huong | 223 |
| CN China | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Huong | 14 |
| US United States | — | 12,700 | 1 in 26K | 12K | Huong | 233 |
| AO Angola | #150 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Huong | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Huong | 63 |
| SE Sweden | — | 501 | 1 in 20K | 501 | Huong | 12 |
| SV El Salvador | #840 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Huong | 2 |
| MO Macao | #5 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Huong | 1 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Huong is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, ‘hudéng-hud FE specks flitting before the eyes
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, bright, dazzling, splendid, (hti “7G hudng)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a screen, a curtain, a shop-sign
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a x a hard, white-skinned bamboo
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, leisure, to be idle, careless
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, oppressed with cares, hurried
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Hồ Xuân Hươngb. 1772VNVietnamese poet (1772–1822)
- Tiny Yongb. 1944FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Dương Thu Hươngb. 1947VNVietnamese writer and politician
- Eva Nguyen Binhb. 1970FRnot in their usual nameFrench diplomat
- Hồ Quỳnh Hươngb. 1980VNVietnamese singer
- Luu Thi Diem Huongb. 1990VNMiss World Vietnamese 2010
- Lê Thu Thanh Hươngb. 1991VNVietnamese association football player
- Văn Mai Hươngb. 1994VNVietnamese singer (born 1994)
- Hoàng Thị HươngVNVietnamese sports shooter
- Hoc Phinot in their usual nameVietnamese imperial concubine
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 865 | #2,116 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 501 | #2,772 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 101 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 100 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 94 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 86 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 81 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 76 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Huong?
- A machine transcription gives /hwɔŋ͡m˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Huong a male or female name?
- Huong is a female 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 Huong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 583 thousand people named Huong in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huong.
- How common is the name Huong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,700 people named Huong in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Huong compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Huong is the 17th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Huong?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huongThe 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, “Huong” — the 17th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.