The surname Phuong
A Vietnamese surname, carried by 1,355 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P520
Origin
Vietnamese origin
Borrowed from Vietnamese Phương.
One of 31 Vietnamese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,355 people named Phuong in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 227,856 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,084.
Who is named Phuong
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
98% of people named Phuong identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.0% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 98%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- White (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Phuong has the Soundex code P520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P520.
Other Vietnamese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Phuong come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Phương.
- How common is the surname Phuong?
- 1,355 people in the United States had the surname Phuong in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 227,856 Americans. It ranked 19,834th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Phuong?
- In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Phuong identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.0% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Phuong getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,084 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,355 in 2010, up 25%.