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Trung

Boys' name

Loyalty, devotion or middle

Trung has been given to 759 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1981, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Trung, 2014

1 in 741,000

Trung over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trung: meaning, origin, and history

Loyalty, devotion or middle

Chinese

What Trung means

Trung means “loyalty, devotion or middle”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trung is used in Vietnamese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡ɕʊwŋ͡m˧˧/ and /ʈʊwŋ͡m˧˧/ for Trung.

Origin, language, and formation

Trung is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Trung is pronounced [t͡ɕʊwŋ͡m˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 759 boys were recorded with the name Trung between 1976 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,430 in 1981.

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 Trung?

Trung had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trung sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trung. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trungs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trung was born before 1989 — so the typical Trung is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
759
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (358).

Is Trung 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (45)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,430
1981

Spellings of Trung

Trung is not the most common spelling — Trent is, with 59.2% against Trung's 0.87%.

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 Trung is used

Across 1910–2025, Trung was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 129,128 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 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. Trung has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trung around the world

Where Trung 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
    1996–1999
    #2,943
    in 1999
  • France
    1964–2007
    #4,412
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #2,303
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trung by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,430
1981
Peak year
1981
45 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
759
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trung

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

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Sibling names for Trung

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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