Sung
given name · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of sing
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sʌŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sung is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 18K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
past participle of sing
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sung 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Sung | 47 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Sung | 4 |
| US United States | — | 9,641 | 1 in 35K | 9K | Sung | 366 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Sung | 128 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 5 | Sung | 134 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Sung | 41 |
| HK Hong Kong | #353 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Sung | 67 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the ca-statcan-baby-names register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sung is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Chinese dynasty
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In tft, alternative form of sungi (“new”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aot, remembrance, thought, mind, brain, intelligence, spirit, life
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a surname from Hakka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, sycamore, fig
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)
- An Ki-songb. 1898KPnot in their usual namepolitician
- Seong Moyb. 1921USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American painter and printmaker (1921-2013)
- Park Seungb. 1936KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean economist
- Kim Songb. 1959KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean diplomat, permanent representative to the UN
- Li Xiaoshuangb. 1973CNnot in their usual namegymnast
- Seungho Moonb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professor (born 1973)
- Seung Hong Choib. 1975KRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0412-2270)
- Lee Sung Jinb. 1981KRSouth Korean writer and director
- Song Zhangb. 2000USnot in their usual nameresearcher in mechanical engineering at Purdue University
- Seong Ho Parkb. 2000KRnot in their usual nameKorean radiologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.1K | #2,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #2,522 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2001 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sung mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of sing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sung?
- A machine transcription gives /sʌŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sung a male or female name?
- Sung 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sung?
- In the etymology graph, Seung is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Sung in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sung.
- How common is the name Sung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,641 people named Sung in 2020, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Sung compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Sung is the 353rd most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sung?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sungThe 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, “Sung” — the 353rd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.