Chung
A Chinese and Korean name meaning "loyal, faithful". Fewer than 50 people in Poland carry it, split fairly evenly between men and women, so most Poles will never meet one.
Chung Pronunciation
Chung is pronounced KHOONK (/xunk/).
What Chung means
Where Chung comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Chung comes from outside the Polish name-stock, and its home is in Chinese and Korean naming. In writing it often stands for the character 忠, read zhōng in Mandarin, which names loyalty and devotion to a promise. Korean carries the same syllable as 충. The short meaning given here, loyal and faithful, sits close to that written root rather than arriving as a later gloss.
In Poland the name is rare. A child named Chung on a school register in Kraków usually points to a family with roots in Asia. The name has no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender variant. It stays as it is.
The Polish sense, lojalny and wierny, matches the older meaning almost exactly. That makes Chung unusual. Many names collect their meaning long after the sound settles. Here the meaning and the origin hold together in one character, 忠.
How many people are named Chung
1 in 688587 men in Poland is named Chung. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5843 among male names.
Chung as a middle name
Chung is a first name for 43 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2047th, between Chima (19) and Clément (19).
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#2045 Chien19
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#2046 Chima19
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#2047 Chung19
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#2048 Clément19
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#2049 Cody19