Ñguyen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ñguyen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Nguyễn.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 9(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 132
- AUAustralia≈1 in 500
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #43 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 570 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nguyen in VN Vietnam, US United States, AU Australia and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Vietnamese Nguyễn.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ñguyen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #1 | ≈11,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 9 | 39M | Nguyen | 350 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Nguyen | 34 |
| US United States | #33 | 437,645 | 1 in 760 | 531K | Nguyen | 570 |
| AO Angola | #3 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 132 | — | Nguyen | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | #93 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 5 | Nguyen | 210 |
| AU Australia | #11 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 500 | 3 | Nguyen | 308 |
| NO Norway | — | 15,162 | 1 in 361 | 15K | Nguyen | 83 |
| SV El Salvador | #111 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 666 | — | Nguyen | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: The article discusses the popularity of the surname 'Nguyễn' among Vietnamese people, published by Vietcetera.; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñguyen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Nguyễn. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Ñguyen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 million people named Ñguyen in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nguyen.
- How common is the name Ñguyen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437,645 people named Ñguyen in 2010, about 1 in 760 residents.
- How common is Ñguyen compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ñguyen is the most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ñguyen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1guyenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñguyen” — the most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.