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Phuong

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Garland, bouquet (of flowers)

Phuong has been given to 1,315 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1982, with 87 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.

Babies named Phuong, 2013

1 in 729,000

Phuong over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Phuong over time

In 2013, Phuong went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19752013

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Phuong: meaning, origin, and history

Garland, bouquet (of flowers)

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Phuong means

Phuong means “garland, bouquet (of flowers)”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Phuong is used in Khmer.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpʰuəŋ/ for Phuong.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,033 girls were recorded with the name Phuong between 1975 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,409 in 1984.

In the United States, 282 boys were recorded with the name Phuong between 1977 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,891 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.

How common is Phuong?

Phuong had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Phuong 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phuong. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Phuongs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Phuong was born before 1986 — so the typical Phuong is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
55.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,033
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1980s — 55.1% of all recorded uses (569).

Is Phuong 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (87)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,409
1984

Spellings of Phuong

Phuong is the most-used spelling, taking 64.1% of the 1,611 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Phuong64.1%1,033
  • Huong35.9%578

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 Phuong is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Phuong was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 111,189 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Kansas1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Phuong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Phuong is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Phuong was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 497,660 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Phuong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Phuong around the world

Where Phuong 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1964–2016
    #7,233
    in 2016
  • Norway
    1880–1992
    #491
    in 1992
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,195
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1981–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Phuong 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
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Best rank ever
#1,409
1984
Peak year
1982
87 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
1,033
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,891
1983
Peak year
1981
29 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
282
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Phuong

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

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Sibling names for Phuong

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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