Phuong
Phuong was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 1,315 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Phuong and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 34 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phuong by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phuong?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,621, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
108 babies in 1982, the peak
Phuong peaked in 1982, when 108 babies were given it (87 girls, #1,411 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,621 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,085 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,151 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,771 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,354 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,411 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,726 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,749 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,279 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,691 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,866 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,719 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,842 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,891 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,168 | 6 | #8,969 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,696 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,068 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,282 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,557 | 11 | #5,263 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,956 | 12 | #4,785 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,862 | 20 | #3,193 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,055 | 9 | #5,695 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,699 | 12 | #4,451 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,910 | 13 | #3,839 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,220 | 12 | #3,903 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,027 | 19 | #2,756 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,940 | 15 | #3,174 |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,409 | 21 | #2,417 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,624 | 29 | #1,891 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,411 | 21 | #2,397 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,727 | 29 | #1,934 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,115 | 23 | #2,266 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,912 | 17 | #2,746 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,611 | 8 | #4,457 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,340 | 5 | #6,594 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,526 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,307 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Phuong a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,315 Americans recorded as Phuong, 79% are girls and 21% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Phuong: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phuong, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,315 Americans ever recorded as Phuong. The median Phuong alive today is 41 years old; half are between 34 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 20,364 people named Phuong (16,549 women and girls, 3,815 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 182 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 939 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Phuong born?
The states with the most babies named Phuong are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 333 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 25 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kansas | 7 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Phuong is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Phuong 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 girls’ 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 Phuong 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 1,494 babies since 1880, Phuong is the most given (88% 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 Phuong
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 Phuong and names like it
- Compare Phuong and PhungBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sPhuong peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phuong since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Phuong.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Phuong alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.