Năm
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vietnamese numeral ‘five’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Năm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 114(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 15K
- USUnited States1 in 38K
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)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)
≈870,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nam in VN Vietnam, US United States, MY Malaysia and 2 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)
Vietnamese numeral ‘five’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Năm 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 | #24 | ≈870,000 est. | ≈1 in 114 | — | Nam | 236 |
| US United States | — | 8,645 | 1 in 38K | 6.6K | Nam | 169 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nam | 58 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 286K | — | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | #526 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Nam | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nam | 43 |
| IS Iceland | — | 22 | 1 in 16K | 22 | — | — |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Năm is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, five
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sit-pro, jungle
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sit-pro, smell
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In bdq, to go, to come
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Năm mean, and where does it come from?
- Vietnamese numeral ‘five’; used here as a simple personal name, often marking birth order among siblings. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Năm a male or female name?
- Năm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Năm?
- In the etymology graph, ឆ្នាំ is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Năm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 866 thousand people named Năm in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nam.
- How common is the name Năm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,645 people named Năm in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Năm compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Năm is the 24th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Năm?
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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, “Năm” — the 24th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.