Nung
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: to burn at high temperatures (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/nuŋ/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated · uncertain
Nung is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 88K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 620Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Nung
- Indonesian:/nuŋ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to burn at high temperatures
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nung is read
(measured from records)Nung is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English38%
lang., people, Vietnam, South China
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Vietnamese14%
to burn at high temperatures
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese9.7%
Incompetent
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
InriBible
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Xeisurely
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Faculty
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
- Thai8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nung in Thai.
- Indonesian7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nung in Indonesian.
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)Nung 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | 9 | Nung | 6 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Nung | 83 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Nung | 12 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Nung | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Nung | 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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kim Đồngb. 1929VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese revolutionary
- Nông Đức Mạnhb. 1940VNnot in their usual nameformer General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
- Nong Qunhuab. 1966CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton 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).
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nung mean, and where does it come from?
- to burn at high temperatures Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nung?
- In Indonesian /nuŋ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nung a male or female name?
- Nung 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Nung?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Nung in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, United States, Malaysia and Hong Kong; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nung?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Nung, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nung?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nungThe 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, “Nung”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.