Lung
Meaning
a Cantonese name; the sound Lung most familiarly renders 龍, “dragon”, though it can spell other characters too
The story
Lung is a Cantonese given name, and its most familiar reading is 龍, the dragon: the only mythical creature of the Chinese zodiac and one of the oldest emblems of power and good fortune a family can fold into a name. The romanized sound can stand for other characters too, but 龍 is the reading Hong Kong sent around the world: when a 1950 Cantonese film needed a screen name for its child actor, it billed him as Lee Siu-lung, little dragon, and the boy grew up to be Bruce Lee. As a given name Lung is worn proudly and plainly, one syllable that most often carries the biggest creature in the sky.
How popular is Lung around the world?
In the United States, Lung is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. Lung is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Lung is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Lung appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Montevideo City
last on record 1980
Lung is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
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The Lung deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Lung truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Lung fits with your family’s names and surname.
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