Phuong

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Phuong: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Phuong: Recorded since 1960, it reached #353 in 1973, and it was last ranked in 2019.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#353highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2019

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1999	#3900
2000	#3912
2006	#5061
2009	#5556
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2019	#5591

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 25 of the 33 years from 1960 to 1992.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1960–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1960
First recorded at #484 among girls in Norway in 1960 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1960–1992
Highest recorded position: #353 among girls in Norway, in 1973 (recorded 1960–1992).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #5591 among girls in England and Wales, in 2019.
England and Wales · Girls

Phuong appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1960, and has registered 165 births with the name.

Phuong across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Phuong's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#484 (1960)	#353 (1973)	#517 (1992)	25 of 33	165 (1960–1992)	11 (1973)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#2683 (1996)	#5591 (2019)	9 of 24	29 (1996–2019)	5 (1996)

Phuong by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Phuong in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	29	6 of 10	5
1970sbusiest	73	9 of 10	8
1980s	51	8 of 10	6
1990s	12	2 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Phuong appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1960 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #353 in Norway in 1973.

Phuong's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#517	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#626	5	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#638	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#579	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#576	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#445	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#495	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#596	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#452	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#590	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#487	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#375	10	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#473	7	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#524	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#439	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#353	11	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#484	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#383	9	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#415	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#423	7	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#574	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#489	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#524	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#484	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1960 and 2019, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #353, first reached in 1973.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in Norway in 1973.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 36 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Leela · #353, 29y
Marcia · #354, 36y
Teegan · #354, 29y
Angelique · #351, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Constantin · #353, 47y
Walid · #353, 48y
Abdulkadir · #354, 48y
Amer · #354, 48y

Phuong was ranked #353 in Norway · Girls in 1973. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Phuong and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Phuong without appearing here.

Phuong moved ahead of

Unni Compare
In 1991 they stood at #626 and #542 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #517 and #686.
Leah Compare
In 1991 they stood at #626 and #613 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #517 and #661.
Katherine Compare
In 1991 they stood at #626 and #567 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #517 and #659.
Lucy Compare
In 1972 they stood at #515 and #509 in Norway · Girls; by 1973 that had become #353 and #494.

Moved ahead of Phuong

Logan Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1970.
Luca Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2683 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1970.
Shea Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2189.
Selma Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2683 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2444.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1960 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #353 in Norway in 1973. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Phuong

Phuong at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Phuong across 2 official records

Phuong by decade in Norway · Girls

Phuong appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Phuong moved ahead of

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Phuong at a glance

Phuong across 2 official records

Phuong by decade in Norway · Girls

Phuong appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Phuong

Phuong and the names beside it

Phuong moved ahead of

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