Phạm

Phạm is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name from 范, which may be rendered as Fan in Chinese or Beom (범) in Korean. It is not to be confused with Phan (潘), another Vietnamese surname.

Phạm
PronunciationInternational Phonetic Alphabet
  • Hanoi: [fâˀm]
  • Saigon: [fə̂ˀm]
Language(s)Vietnamese
Other names
Variant form(s)Fan, Huan, Fam, Hwang, Fung (from Chinese), Beom (Korean)

Origin

Phạm is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chữ Hán 范 (fàn 'plants, grass' or 'models, limits, pattern').[1]

Frequency

Phạm is a very prevalent last name in Vietnam. Among the global ethnic Vietnamese population, it is the fifth-most common name, accounting for 5% of the approximately 75 million people. It is also quite common in the United States, shared by around 82,000 citizens.[2] It is the 951st most common surname in France[3] and the 455th most common in Australia.[4][5]

Phạm (范) family Vietnamese Five Colours Flag

People

Notable people with the surname Phạm include:

Science
Politics and Military
Arts and entertainment
Sports
Religious figures
Fictional characters
Other
  • Nina Pham, U.S. nurse who became the first victim in the U.S. to acquire the Ebola virus disease through transmission in the U.S. during the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak[6]
  • Phạm Đoan Trang Vietnamese human rights activist

See also

References
  1. http://nomfoundation.org/index.php?IDcat=515&codepoint=8303%5B%5D
  2. "Pham Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History". forebears.io. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  3. French surnames
  4. PBS, POV: The Sweetest Sound: Popularity Index
  5. "Most Common Australian Surnames & Meanings". forebears.io. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  6. "Nina Pham, first person to contract Ebola in US, arrives in Maryland". Eyewitness News. ABC7 KABC Los Angeles. 16 October 2014.
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