Chúng

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Pluralizing particle for pronouns

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chúng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.4K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 32K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

43,110 people, 2010

Sources
112 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chung in US United States, NL Netherlands, HK Hong Kong.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Pluralizing particle for pronouns

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chúng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Chúng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—43,1101 in 7.7K44KChung112
NL Netherlands—5351 in 32K535Chung13
GY Guyana—5331 in 1.4K533——
AR Argentina—4331 in 105K433——
ES Spain—2281 in 219K228—5
CH Switzerland—2031 in 41K203—6
FI Finland—1601 in 35K160—3
HK Hong Kong#561———Chung35

43,110 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chúng is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname188 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia

    Languages: English, Chinese, Thai

    Also written Chung, แซ่จึง, แซ่จาง, แซ่จัง, ช่วง

  • Japanese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Malaysia, Hong Kong

    Also written Chung, Zhung, Chứng

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chúng is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, lenited form of cúng

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Lv Zhongb. 548not in their usual nameSui dynasty person CBDB = 142731
  • Li Zhongb. 1037not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 13559)
  • Li Zhongnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 173626
  • Li Zhongnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 186585
  • Li Zhongnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 187308

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chúng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chúng mean, and where does it come from?
Pluralizing particle for pronouns Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Chúng a male or female name?
Chúng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Chúng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Chúng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chung.
Where is Chúng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chúng is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chúng?
In the United States, the national register counted 43,110 people named Chúng in 2010, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
How common is Chúng compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Chúng is the 561st most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%BAng

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chúng” — the 561st most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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