Entry № 4388 · Vietnamese origin

Huong Huong — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HUNG /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Fragrance, scent"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "fragrance, scent".

Hương is the Vietnamese word for "fragrance." The Perfume River (Sông Hương) runs through Hue, the ancient imperial capital of Vietnam.

Huong is widely used in Vietnam.

Fragrance. The Vietnamese Perfume River.

The name in its native script.

Hương
Transliteration
Hương
Pronunciation
/ hʊŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Huong stands.

Huong does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Huongs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Huong
Common in Vietnamese fiction.

Names connected to Huong.

The number behind Huong.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Huong reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.