Ung (surname)

Ung is a surname.

Origin

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

• Oeng (; ), which can be found among Chinese Cambodians as a Khmer-alphabet transcription of the Amoy Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname Huáng ().
• Ung (; )

It is the Sino-Korean reading of the Chinese surname Xióng, though that surname is not found modern South Korea. 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. As of 2017, 16 people in Denmark and 26 people in Norway bore the surname Ung.

People

• Per Ung (1933–2013), Norwegian sculptor
• Chinary Ung (; born 1942), Cambodian composer
• Ung Huot (; born 1947), Prime Minister of Cambodia (1997–1998)
• Ung Hong Sath (; ), Cambodian cabinet minister
• Loung Ung (; born 1970), Cambodian-born American human-rights activist and lecturer
• Sandra Ung (; born 1974), Cambodian-born American politician
• Daniel Ung (born 1975), Swedish football defender

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