Phong
given name · Latin script
Meaning: maple
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɔ˨˥ŋm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Phong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 217(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 53K
- ISIceland1 in 35K
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)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 217 (inferred from the name graph)
≈450,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
maple
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phong 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 | #58 | ≈450,000 est. | ≈1 in 217 | listed | Phong | 205 |
| US United States | — | 6,276 | 1 in 53K | 5.8K | Phong | 160 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Phong | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 41 | Phong | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 1 | Phong | 38 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)
Phong is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: phong, phong thái/phong thịnh; trong bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Yếu tố trong chữ Hán của tên Diễm; thành phần ghép với Sắc.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In ace, pertaining to the smell of armpits
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)
- Tien Fengb. 1928TWnot in their usual nameChinese actor (1928–2015)
- Bùi Tường Phongb. 1942VNComputer graphics researcher and pioneer (1942-1975)
- Johnnie Tob. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker (born 1955)
- Li Fengb. 1962USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American academic and sinologist (born 1962)
- Zu Fengb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Shiung Fengb. 1978JPnot in their usual nameTaiwanese go player
- Zhu Fengb. 1978CNnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Raymond Lamb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Wang Fengb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
- Nguyễn Hải Phongb. 1982VNVietnamese songwriter, singer, composer and record producer (born 1982)
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 37 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #3,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 490 | #3,373 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 38 | — |
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
- What does the name Phong mean, and where does it come from?
- maple Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Phong?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔ˨˥ŋm/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Phong a male or female name?
- Phong is a male 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 Phong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 454 thousand people named Phong in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phong.
- How common is the name Phong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,276 people named Phong in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Phong compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Phong is the 58th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phongThe 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, “Phong” — the 58th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.