Trung
A rare sight in Poland: only about 77 men carry it, and no boys have been given it here since at least 2000. The name means "loyal, faithful".
Trung Pronunciation
Trung is pronounced TROONK (/trunk/).
What Trung means
Where Trung comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Trung is a Vietnamese name, and it means loyal, faithful. The word traces to the Sino-Vietnamese character 忠, read trung, which names loyalty and devotion. The same character runs through Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean naming, so a boy called Trung shares a root with millions of people across Asia.
In Vietnam the name usually goes to boys. In Vietnamese practice the word often appears within a two-part given name. It has no Polish diminutive and no feminine form. The name is short. A Polish teacher reading it from a class register meets it whole, four letters and one syllable.
The meaning stays close to the origin. Loyalty was the point from the start, not a sense attached later. A person named Trung wears the word for faithfulness as a given name.
How many people are named Trung
1 in 277223 men in Poland is named Trung. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4080 among male names.
Trung as a middle name
Trung is a first name for 77 men in Poland and a middle name for another 59, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 963rd, between Serge (59) and Ahmet (58).
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#961 Reyes59
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#962 Serge59
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#963 Trung59
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#964 Ahmet58
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#965 Alek58