Dung

Where Dung comes from

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dung.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dung
  • Vietnamese
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #3,941 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Peak, #1,362
    48 babies named Dung — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,203.
  4. 2000
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Vietnamese.
  • A male given name from Vietnamese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.