Cuong
The name carries the sense "strong, powerful". In Poland it belongs to a few dozen men, all of them male, and most Poles have never met one: no boy has been given it in the years on record.
Cuong Pronunciation
Cuong is pronounced TSOO-onk (/ˈt͡suɔnk/).
What Cuong means
Where Cuong comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cuong comes from Vietnamese, where the written form is Cường. The word means strong, powerful. Its root is Sino-Vietnamese, the character 強 that Vietnamese borrowed from classical Chinese along with much of its older vocabulary.
The name is common across Vietnam, and it belongs to men. It often joins a second element of similar force, as in Mạnh Cường, where mạnh also points to strength. Read that pairing and you meet the same idea twice.
Poland has a large Vietnamese community, and a teacher reading a class register in Warsaw may reach the name Cường between Polish surnames. The tone marks fall away on many official forms at the urząd, and Cuong is what remains. The sense stays. It means strong, powerful.
How many people are named Cuong
1 in 395300 men in Poland is named Cuong. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5061 among male names.
Cuong as a middle name
Cuong is a first name for 54 men in Poland and a middle name for another 42, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1215th, between Conor (42) and Enrico (42).
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#1213 Aurelio42
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#1214 Conor42
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#1215 Cuong42
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#1216 Enrico42
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#1217 Hunter42