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Nhung

Girls' name

Velvet

Nhung has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nhung, 2002

1 in 747,000

Nhung over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nhung: meaning, origin, and history

Velvet

Chinese

What Nhung means

Nhung means “velvet”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nhung is used in Vietnamese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɲʊwŋ͡m˧˧/ for Nhung.

Origin, language, and formation

Nhung is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Nhung is pronounced [ɲʊwŋ͡m˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 215 girls were recorded with the name Nhung between 1980 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,227 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nhung?

Nhung had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nhung sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nhung. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nhungs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nhung was born before 1988 — so the typical Nhung is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
53.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
215
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Nhung rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (19)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,227
1983

Spellings of Nhung

Nhung is not the most common spelling — Phuong is, with 43.8% against Nhung's 9.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nhung is used

Across 1910–2025, Nhung was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 554,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nhung has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nhung around the world

Where Nhung ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1992–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nhung by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,227
1983
Peak year
1987
19 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
215
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nhung

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nhung

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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