Phạm is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name from , 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.

Origin

Phạm is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the

Chữ Hán Chữ Hán (𡨸漢, literally "Chinese characters", ), Chữ Nho (𡨸儒, literally "Confucian characters", ) or Hán tự (漢字, ), is the Vietnamese term for Chinese characters, used to write Văn ngôn (which is a form of Classical Chines ...

(fàn 'plants, grass' or 'models, limits, pattern').

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. It is the 951st most common surname in

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and the 455th most common in Australia.

People

Notable people with the surname Phạm include: ;Science Phạm (范) family Vietnamese Five Colours Flag

* Phạm Tuân, first Vietnamese cosmonaut * Frédéric Pham, Vietnamese French mathematician (ref.

Brieskorn–Pham manifold In mathematics, a Brieskorn manifold or Brieskorn–Phạm manifold, introduced by , is the intersection of a small sphere around the origin with the singular, complex hypersurface :x_1^+\cdots+x_n^=0 studied by . Brieskorn manifolds give examples ...

) *

Kathy Pham Kathy Pham is a Vietnamese American computer scientist and product management executive. She has held roles in leadership, engineering, product management, and data science at Google, IBM, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Harris Healthcare, an ...

, computer scientist * Phạm Đình Hổ - inventor of Vietnamese Chinese Characters

Chữ Nôm Chữ Nôm (, ; ) is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses Chinese characters (''Chữ Hán'') to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represen ...

;Politics and Military * Phạm Công Trứ, mandarin of the Le and Trinh dynasties * Phạm Ngũ Lão, prominent general under Trần Hưng Đạo * Phạm Văn Đồng Prime Minister of North Vietnam (1955–1976) and reunified Vietnam (1976–1987) * Hung Pham, politician from Alberta, Canada * Pham Le Bong, foreign minister to Bảo Đại (last emperor of Vietnam) * Phạm Ngọc Thảo, colonel in the

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, communist spy * Phạm Phú Quốc, Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot involved in 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing * Phạm Văn Phú, ARVN general * Phạm Quang Khiêm,

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1st lieutenant who was bast known for stealing C-130A for freedom before the

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* Khanh Pham, American politician ;Arts and entertainment *

Phạm Duy Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one ...

, composer and songwriter * Linh Dan Pham, French Vietnamese actress * Hoa Pham, Australian author * Phạm Phi Nhung, Vietnamese American singer *

Quang X. Pham Quang Pham, a Vietnamese American businessman, veteran, author, and community leader, is noted as the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the U.S. Marine Corps. His family were refugees of the Vietnam War, immigrating to ...

, author *

Andrew X. Pham Andrew X. Pham is a Vietnamese-born American author who is the founder of Spoonwiz. Extended biography Born in Phan Thiet in 1967, Pham's father Thong was a teacher and his mother a laundress. Pham had two sisters, Chi and Kay, and three younger ...

, author * Thái Thanh, 20th century Vietnamese singer, real name Phạm Thị Băng Thanh *

Phạm Thị Hoài Phạm Thị Hoài (born 1960 in Gia Lộc, Hải Dương, Vietnam) is an influential contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany. Biography Born in Hải Dương province, Phạm Thị Hoài grew up in North V ...

, author *

Phạm Xuân Thái Frater (lingua sistemfrater), an ''a posteriori'' international auxiliary language, published in ''Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed'', in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Phạm Xuân Thái. Ph� ...

, Vietnamese linguist * Phạm Xuân Ẩn, Vietnamese journalist and communist spy from South Vietnam *Phạm Xuân Nguyên, pen name Ngân Xuyên, Vietnamese writer and literary translator * Elyzabeth Pham, American Miss Wisconsin USA 1999 * Phạm Hương, Miss Universe Vietnam 2015 Winner * Phạm Thị Thanh Hằng, Actress, TV Host & Model ;Sports *

Thierry Pham Thierry Pham (born 28 April 1962) is a former professional tennis player from France. Career Pham played in a Davis Cup tie for France in 1986, against Turkey, with they won 5–0. He won both of his singles rubbers, over Alaaddin Karagoz and ...

, French professional tennis player * Phạm Thành Lương, Vietnamese football ( Soccer) player * Phạm Đức Huy, Vietnamese football ( Soccer) player * Phạm Như Phương, Vietnamese artistic gymnast * Anathan "ana" Pham, Australian

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player * Tommy Pham, American baseball player ;Religious figures * Phạm Công Tắc, first twelve disciples of Cao Dai * Phạm Minh Mẫn Cardinal Priest & Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City in the Roman Catholic Church. ;Fictional characters * Pham Tai, protagonist of the 18th century epic poem,

Phạm Tải – Ngọc Hoa ''The Story of Phạm Tải and Ngọc Hoa'' (''Phạm Tải – Ngọc Hoa'') is an anonymous 18th Century Vietnamese language epic poem of 934 verses. The poem belongs to the genre of vernacular nôm script verse poems which includes '' Phạ ...

*Pham Thi La, a character in the Muv-Luv spin-off series Schwarzesmarken. ;Other *

Nina Pham Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. Eleven cases were reported, including these four cases and seven cases medically evacuated from other countries. The first ...

, 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 * Phạm Đoan Trang Vietnamese human rights activist

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070927024735/http://static.namesdatabase.com/names2/P/H/Pham.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Pham Vietnamese-language surnames Surnames of Vietnamese origin

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