Truong
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʈuɔŋ͡m˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Truong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Trương. Doublet of Zhang.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 181(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.7K
- CACanada≈1 in 6.2K
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)
- #982 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 181 (inferred from the name graph)
≈550,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Trương in MO Macao.
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 Trương. Doublet of Zhang.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Truong 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 | #14 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 181 | 1.8M | Truong | 224 |
| US United States | #969 | 38,267 | 1 in 8.7K | 45K | Truong | 420 |
| AO Angola | #65 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Truong | 2 |
| CA Canada | #573 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Truong | 202 |
| AU Australia | #382 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 3 | Truong | 197 |
| NO Norway | — | 928 | 1 in 5.9K | 928 | Truong | 22 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Trương | 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 article discusses the popularity of the surname 'Nguyễn' among Vietnamese people, published by Vietcetera.; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- Trương Địnhb. 1820VNAnti-colonial military commander
- Trương Vĩnh Kýb. 1837FRVietnamese scholar (1837-1898)
- Nadine Truongb. 1901USVietnamese filmmaker
- Trương Tấn Sangb. 1949VNformer president of Vietnam
- Trương Hòa Bìnhb. 1955VNVietnamese politician
- Trương Mỹ Lanb. 1956VNVietnamese businesswoman
- Trương Ngọc Ánhb. 1976VNVietnamese Actress, model, Miss New Model International 1998
- Truong Thanh Hangb. 1986VNVietnamese middle distance runner
- Yaya Trương Nhib. 1990VNVietnamese actress and model
- Trương Thị Kim Tuyếnb. 1997VNVietnamese Taekwondo practitioner
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 45 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Truong mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Trương. Doublet of Zhang. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Truong?
- A machine transcription gives /ʈuɔŋ͡m˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Truong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 545 thousand people named Truong in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled truong.
- How common is the name Truong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 38,267 people named Truong in 2010, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Truong compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Truong is the 14th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Truong?
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/truongThe 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, “Truong” — the 14th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.