Ung (surname) explained

Ung is a surname.

Origin

Ung is a Latin-alphabet spelling of two Cambodian surnames, given below in Geographic Department romanization:

• Oeng (km|អ៊ឹង; in Central Khmer pronounced as /ʔɨŋ/), which can be found among Chinese Cambodians as a Khmer-alphabet transcription of the Amoy Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname Huáng (Chinese: 黃).^{[1] [2]}
• Ung (km|អ៊ុង; in Central Khmer pronounced as /ʔuŋ/)

It is the Sino-Korean reading of the Chinese surname Xióng, though that surname is not found modern South Korea.^[3] It is also a Scandinavian surname literally meaning "young".

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, roughly 4,519 people in the United States bore the surname Ung, with most (91.79%) being Asian Pacific Americans.^[4] As of 2017, 16 people in Denmark and 26 people in Norway bore the surname Ung.^{[5] [6]}

People

• Per Ung (1933–2013), Norwegian sculptor
• Chinary Ung (Central Khmer: អ៊ុង ឈីណារី; born 1942), Cambodian composer
• Ung Huot (Central Khmer: អ៊ឹង ហួត; born 1947), Prime Minister of Cambodia (1997–1998)
• Ung Hong Sath (Central Khmer: អ៊ុង ហុងសាធ;), Cambodian cabinet minister
• Loung Ung (Central Khmer: អ៊ឹង លឿង; born 1970), Cambodian-born American human-rights activist and lecturer
• Sandra Ung (Chinese: 黃敏儀; born 1974), Cambodian-born American politician
• Daniel Ung (born 1975), Swedish football defender

Notes and References

1. News: អ្នកជាប់ត្រកូលអ៊ឹងមានភាពលេចធ្លោនិងជោគជ័យខ្ពស់. Post Khmer. 5 December 2012. 1 January 2018.
2. News: អ្នកវិភាគ៖ កំណើនពលរដ្ឋចិននៅកម្ពុជាអាចប៉ះពាល់ដល់សង្គមខ្មែរ. Radio Free Asia. 13 February 2014. 1 January 2018.
3. Web site: 행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구. Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals. Korean Statistical Information Service. 23 October 2015.
4. Web site: Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census. United States Census. 27 December 2016. 1 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170526045310/https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html. 26 May 2017.
5. Web site: Names. Statistics Norway. 24 January 2017. 1 January 2018.
6. Web site: How many Danes have the name .... Statistics Denmark. 2017. 3 January 2018.