Ung (surname)

Ung is a surname.

Origin
Ung is a Latin-alphabet spelling of two Cambodian surnames, given below in Geographic Department romanization:
 * Oeng (អ៊ឹង; ), which can be found among Chinese Cambodians as a Khmer-alphabet transcription of the Amoy Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname Huáng (黃).
 * Ung (អ៊ុង; )

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 (អ៊ុង ឈីណារី; born 1942), Cambodian composer
 * Ung Huot (អ៊ឹង ហួត; born 1947), Prime Minister of Cambodia (1997–1998)
 * Ung Hong Sath (អ៊ុង ហុងសាធ; fl. 1960s), Cambodian cabinet minister
 * Loung Ung (អ៊ឹង លឿង; born 1970), Cambodian-born American human-rights activist and lecturer
 * Sandra Ung (黃敏儀; born 1974), Cambodian-born American politician
 * Daniel Ung (born 1975), Swedish football defender