Vuong
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Vietnamese, equivalent to English King
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/juɔŋ͡m˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vuong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 962(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
- CACanada≈1 in 22K
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
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 962 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Vietnamese, equivalent to English King.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vuong 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 | #41 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 962 | 2M | Vuong | 175 |
| US United States | — | 9,407 | 1 in 35K | 11K | Vuong | 335 |
| AO Angola | #350 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Vuong | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Vuong | 124 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Vuong | 131 |
| NO Norway | — | 204 | 1 in 27K | 204 | — | 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 article discusses the popularity of the surname 'Nguyễn' among Vietnamese people, published by Vietcetera.; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vuong is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a surname from Vietnamese, equivalent of the French surname Roy
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)
- Vương Hồng Sểnb. 1902VNscientist
- Vương Thừa Vũb. 1910VNLieutenant General of People's Army of Vietnam
- Anh Thơb. 1921VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese poet (1918-2005)
- Vuong Hoa Ducb. 1923CASouth Vietnamese diplomat
- Quang H. Vuongb. 1953USeconomist
- Vương Đình Huệb. 1958VNVietnamese politician
- Ocean Vuongb. 1988USVietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)
- Kevin Vuongb. 1989CACanadian politician
- Vương Quốc Trungb. 1990VNVietnamese association football player
- Vương Thị Huyềnb. 1992VNVietnamese weightlifter
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 41 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,266 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.4K | #3,766 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.1K | #4,556 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 204 | #7,728 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Vuong mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Vietnamese, equivalent to English King. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vuong?
- A machine transcription gives /juɔŋ͡m˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Vuong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Vuong in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vuong.
- How common is the name Vuong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,407 people named Vuong in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Vuong compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Vuong is the 41st most common surname of 62,915 surnames 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/vuongThe 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, “Vuong” — the 41st most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.