Hung
The name carries the sense of "brave, manly". In Poland it stays rare and exclusively male: only about 130 men hold it, and most Poles have never met one.
Hung Pronunciation
Hung is pronounced KHOONK (/xunk/).
What Hung means
Where Hung comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Hung comes from Vietnamese, where it is written Hùng and means brave or heroic. It sits outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most Polish registers. Its plain sense is manly courage, odważny and mężny.
In Vietnamese tradition the Hùng kings, the Hùng Vương, are counted as the founding rulers of the country's first state, the Hồng Bàng line. A boy who carries Hung shares his name with a word attached to those legendary figures. The link is old and documented, so the courage in the meaning has real bearers behind it.
On a Polish class register, Hung is short. Four letters. A teacher reads it fast, and there is no diminutive to soften it, since the name grew no settled Polish variant.
The meaning stays close to the Vietnamese root instead of arriving as a later gloss. Where a name like Katarzyna gathered its sense of purity over time, Hung means brave from the source. That is the whole of it: Hùng, heroic.
How many people are named Hung
1 in 161714 men in Poland is named Hung. 132 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2891 among male names.
Hung's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Hung as a middle name
Hung is a first name for 132 men in Poland and a middle name for another 80, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 797th, between Graham (80) and Luka (80).
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#795 Aksel80
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#796 Graham80
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#797 Hung80
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#798 Luka80
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#799 Marcos80