Phong
Phong was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,401 among boys’ names; 1,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phong by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Phong mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Phong is “a male given name from Chinese”
[fawŋ͡m˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Phong?
#13,401 among boys’ names, 2025
Phong fell from #11,731 in 2015 to #13,401 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.1 to 2.9 per million.
54 babies in 1985, the peak
Phong peaked in 1985, when 54 babies were given it (49 boys, #1,407 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,401 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,648 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,751 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,830 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,318 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,057 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,439 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,423 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,452 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,731 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,414 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,946 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,808 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,895 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,751 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,122 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,829 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,528 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,795 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,896 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,413 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,380 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,005 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,328 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,817 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,956 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,358 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,000 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,078 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,598 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,076 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,242 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,790 | 23.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,852 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,149 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,273 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 49 | #1,517 | 25.6 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,674 | 22.0 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,684 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,407 | 26.5 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,312 | 28.3 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,417 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 49 | #1,354 | 27.0 |
| 1981 | 41 | #1,515 | 22.9 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,718 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,443 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,456 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,592 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,927 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,661 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Phong a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phong has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Phong: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phong, and how old are they?
An estimated 972 Americans named Phong and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 26 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 6,276 people named Phong (490 women and girls, 5,786 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 952 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Phong born?
The states with the most babies named Phong are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 248 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 24 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Phong is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Phong is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Phong with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,322 babies since 1880, Phong is the most given (77% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Phong
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Phong and names like it
- Compare Phong and FongBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sPhong peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phong since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Phong: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Phong.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Phong alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.