Huong
The name means "fragrance". It's about as rare as a name gets in Poland: roughly 65 people carry it, and no newborn received it last year.
Huong Pronunciation
Huong is pronounced KHOO-onk (/ˈxuɔnk/).
What Huong means
Where Huong comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Huong comes from Vietnamese, and the word behind it, Hương, means fragrance. It traces to the Sino-Vietnamese character 香, scent, the same root the Chinese read as xiāng. The name says something plain and sensory: perfume, aroma, the smell of flowers or incense.
The word also names a river. Sông Hương, the Perfume River, runs through Huế in central Vietnam, and local stories tie its name to blossoms that fell into the water upstream. A girl called Huong shares her word with that river.
In Poland the name arrived with Vietnamese families, one of the larger migrant communities in Warsaw. On an official form at the urząd the tone marks drop away, and Hương becomes plain Huong. The spelling loses the diacritics. The meaning does not move.
The Polish gloss stays close to the Vietnamese: zapach, aromat. Fragrance.
How many people are named Huong
1 in 409888 women in Poland is named Huong. 65 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4519 among female names.
Huong as a middle name
Huong is a first name for 65 women in Poland and a middle name for another 35, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1179th, between Heather (35) and Iliana (35).
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#1177 Gladys35
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#1178 Heather35
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#1179 Huong35
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#1180 Iliana35
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#1181 Joana35