Phą

surname · Latin script

Phą is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 608K

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)

547 people, 2020

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pha in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia.

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.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Phą 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 Phą is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5471 in 608K802—9
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——
IN India———Pha2
ID Indonesia———Pha22
MY Malaysia———Pha7

547 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Phą is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pha, Phã, Phá, Phâ, Pĥã

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Phą under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Phą mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Vietnamese. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Phą have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 547 people named Phą, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Phą most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Phą is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Phą?
In the United States, the national register counted 547 people named Phą in 2020, about 1 in 608 thousand residents.

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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, “Phą”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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