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Phạm arose in historical sources from around the third century CE. It was the title prepositions before names of kings of Lâm Ấp, kings of Funan, the eight chiefs of Jiao, and several tribal figures along the Annamite Mountain between the third to the seventh century CE. American historian Michael Vickery (1998) links the reconstructs the pronunciation of 范 as *buam and *bĭwɐm in Early Middle Chinese (c. 650 CE) with Old Khmer title poñ which was recorded in various 7th-century Cambodian inscriptions.[1] Later, a Phạm family emerged on the coastal side of the Red River basin in the 10th century. Vickery argues that the term was certainly of Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic) origin, and the described demographics associated with the term (*bĭwɐm < *krum ~ prum, krom, khom) are strong linguistic indications of Mon-Khmer.[2] The term is still preserved in few Austroasiatic languages today, such as Temoq*puang (ritualist) ~ puiyang (shaman, + nominalizing infix-iy-) < pauñ < poñ, suggesting a pre-Buddhist native Mon-Khmer institution of leadership who possessed both shamanistic ritual and political roles.[3]
Frequency
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.[4]
It is the 951st most common surname in France[5] and the 455th most common in Australia.[6][7]
Phạm (范) family Vietnamese Five Colours Flag
People
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
^Vickery, Michael (1998). Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: the 7th-8th centuries. Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko. p. 65. ISBN978-4-89656-110-4.
^Vickery, Michael (1998). Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: the 7th-8th centuries. Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko. pp. 66–68. ISBN978-4-89656-110-4.
^Vickery, Michael (1998). Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: the 7th-8th centuries. Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko. p. 203. ISBN978-4-89656-110-4.
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