How rare is the name Phuong?

20,364 people in the United States have the first name Phuong, about 1 in 14,832. It ranks #1,583 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

PHUONG

#1,583

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
20,364
About
1 in 14,832
This common or more
75.8%
Who bears it

Of the 20,364 people named Phuong, 98.4% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander. 81.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Phuong peaked in 1982, when 108 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752013
Peak year
1982
Births that year
108
In 2013
5 ▼95%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 1,315 babies have been given the name since 1975. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Phuong by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #2,579. The largest share of babies named Phuong, 74.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#7,363121
1980s#2,579763
1990s#5,663330
2000s#18,26383
2010s#34,84518
Generation X 1965–8014.7%
Millennials 1981–9674.1%
Generation Z 1997–1210.8%
2013 and later0.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Phuong, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Phuong ranks #17,588 of 156,621, with 1,570 people. See Phuong as a last name

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