Phương
The name carries the sense of "fragrant". In Poland it's rare: only about two dozen people use it, and it splits almost evenly between women and men.
Phương Pronunciation
What Phương means
Where Phương comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Phương comes from Vietnam. In its Sino-Vietnamese layer it goes back to the character 芳, which means fragrant. That sense of scent stays in the short meaning kept for the name today: fragrant, and in Polish simply kwiat.
Phương belongs to Vietnamese naming. Many women carry it. It appears alone, and it appears as the last element of a longer given name. The word points to fragrance, the smell of a flower more than the flower itself. Read that way, the name is a scent given to a person.
On a Polish class register, Phương sits among the Zosias and the Kacpers, and a teacher learns to say it. Vietnamese people form one of the larger minorities in Poland, so the name reaches Polish schools and Polish forms at the urząd. Ask what it means and you land back at the start: fragrant, kwiat.
How many people are named Phương
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Phương. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9129 among female names.
Phương as a middle name
Phương is a first name for 23 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1473rd, between Perpetua (24) and Radzisława (24).
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#1471 Nikodema24
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#1472 Perpetua24
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#1473 Phương24
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#1474 Radzisława24
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#1475 Stefani24