Chung

Chung is the 766th most common surname in the United States, shared by 44,132 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,773.

By the numbers

People: 44,132
Rank: 766th
How common: 1 in 6,773
Per 100,000: 14.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chung described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 88.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Chung

Jamie Chung (born 1983)American actress
Arthur Chung (1918–2008)First President of Guyana, Senior Magistrate, Sworn Land Surveyor
Alexa Chung (born 1983)English television presenter, model and contributing editor
Gillian Chung (born 1981)Hong Kong actress and singer
Linda Chung (born 1984)Chinese-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter
Lee Isaac Chung (born 1978)American filmmaker
Chipo Chung (born 1977)Zimbabwean actress
Myung-whun Chung (born 1953)South Korean pianist and conductor

People named Chung with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chung

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.