Hung
At the 2020 census, 7,499 Americans bore the surname Hung — 4,580th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,900.
By the numbers
- People
- 7,499
- Rank
- 4,580th
- How common
- 1 in 39,900
- Per 100,000
- 2.5
Where the name comes from
From cmn or yue (Mandarin: Hóng, Cantonese: hung<sup>4</sup>) or yue.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Hung described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Hung
- Sammo Hung (born 1952)Hong Kong actor, choreographer, martial artist and filmmaker
- Peter Nguyen Van Hung (born 1958)Taiwan-based Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest and human rights activist
- Trần Anh Hùng (born 1962)French-Vietnamese filmmaker
- Pham Hung (1912–1988)Vietnamese politician
- Lynn Hung (born 1981)Hong Kong-based fashion model and actress
- John Hung (born 1943)Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei
People named Hung with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Hung
Also a first name
Hung has been given to 1,018 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.