Phuong
Barely a hundred people in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick with you. It goes to women and men alike, and at root it means "fragrant".
Phuong Pronunciation
What Phuong means
Where Phuong comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Phuong comes from Vietnamese. A shift in tone splits the name into two words, and both live inside it. Phương can mean fragrant, and it can also mean a direction, a bearing you set out on. The gloss keeps that pair: fragrant, direction.
Behind it stands a second word, Phượng. It names the phoenix, and it names the red flame flower that opens across Vietnamese schoolyards as the school year ends. The Polish reading takes both, feniks and kwiat.
On a Polish class register, Phuong loses its tone marks, so the fragrant word and the phoenix word look identical on the page. The name arrives with no diminutive and no Polish variant. What it brings is the flower and the bird, and the short meaning that names them: feniks, kwiat.
How many people are named Phuong
1 in 292777 women in Poland is named Phuong. 108 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3279 among female names.
Phuong as a middle name
Phuong is a first name for 108 women in Poland and a middle name for another 57, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 910th, between Mika (57) and Sabine (57).
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#908 Juliet57
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#910 Phuong57
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#912 Clare56