Entry № 8138 · Vietnamese origin

Phuong Phuong — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Phoenix; fragrance"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "phoenix; fragrance".

Phượng is the Vietnamese word for "phoenix" — the mythical bird symbolizing rebirth and grace. Used widely as a feminine name. Also can mean "fragrance" depending on tone.

Phuong is widely used in Vietnam.

Phoenix. The Vietnamese mythical bird.

The name in its native script.

Phượng
Transliteration
Phượng
Pronunciation
/ fʊŋ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Phuong stands.

Phuong does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Phuongs before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Phuong
Heroine of Graham Greene's The Quiet American.
1955 novel

Names connected to Phuong.

The number behind Phuong.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Phuong reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.