Phung — unisex name

What the Data Says About Phung

The Social Security Administration has registered 163 babies named Phung between 1980 and 2003, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Phung currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Phung is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Phung performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 112 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Phung shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Phung in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Phung in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 163 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.