Fung

At the 2020 census, 9,050 Americans bore the surname Fung — 3,824th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,050
Rank: 3,824th
How common: 1 in 33,000
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Cantonese, Hakka

From yue or hak.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 84.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
White, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Fung

Stephen Fung (born 1974)Hong Kong actor, singer and filmmaker
Lori Fung (born 1963)Canadian rhythmic gymnast and coach
Stanley Fung (1944–2025)Hong Kong and Taiwanese actor, screenwriter, and film director

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

Surnames like Fung

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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.