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Phạm is a very prevalent last name in Vietnam.
Among the global ethnic Vietnamese population, it is the fourth-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.[1]
It is the 951st most common surname in France[2] and the 455th most common in Australia.[3][4]
Notable people with the surname Phạm include:
Science
Phạm Tuân (born 1947), Vietnamese pilot and cosmonaut
Frédéric Pham (born 1938), Vietnamese-French mathematician
Kathy Pham, Vietnamese American computer scientist
Politics and military
Phạm Công Trứ (1600–1675), Lê dynasty Vietnamese scholar-official and historian
Phạm Ngũ Lão (1255–1320), general of the Trần Dynasty