Phung
Phung was last recorded in 2003, when 7 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phung by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phung?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,473, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1990, the peak
Phung peaked in 1990, when 20 babies were given it (14 girls, #6,370 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #13,473 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,802 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,028 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,525 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,155 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,370 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,405 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,522 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,529 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,893 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 11 | #6,334 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,236 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,104 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,125 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,212 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,634 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Phung a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 179 Americans recorded as Phung, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Phung: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phung, and how old are they?
An estimated 173 Americans named Phung and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 36 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,967 people named Phung (3,085 women and girls, 882 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22.8 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,494 babies since 1880, Phung is the second most given (12% 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 Phung
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 Phung and names like it
- Compare Phung and PhuongBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPhung peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phung since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Phung.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Phung alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.