How Many People Are Named Dung?
people named Dung are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 475,361 people in the US has this name
Based on 756 babies named Dung in Social Security records from 1975 to 2000, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
71 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Sino-Vietnamese 勇 (dũng) meaning "brave".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Dung, 38.6% were girls and 61.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 32.7% of the babies were girls then and 37.7% in the 1990s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dung alive today is about 40 years old, and 97% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 44 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dung first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1982, to 71 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2000.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2000
🏆 Rank History
Dung has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,367, in 1982. Among girls, its best rank was #3,026, in 1985.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,367 (1982) | #3,026 (1985) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,943 in the 1980s | #4,242 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dung alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dung were born in California than in any other state: about 159 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dung was given 5.1 times as often in California and 3.1 times in Texas.
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