Nghiem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ŋiɛm˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nghiem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 615K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 615K (inferred from the name graph)
541 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
unexplained.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nghiem 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 541 | 1 in 615K | 1.4K | Nghiem | 173 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 6 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 87 | Nghiem | 38 |
| AU Australia | — | — | 2 | Nghiem | 58 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Nghiem | 53 |
| AO Angola | — | — | — | Nghiem | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | — | — | Nghiem | 1 |
541 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yan Fub. 1854CNnot in their usual nameChinese translator (1854–1921)
- Ira Janb. 1869MDnot in their usual nameRussian painter, Hebrew writer (1869-1919)
- Juliana Young Koob. 1905USnot in their usual nameChinese American diplomat
- Yan Jiaganb. 1905TWnot in their usual namePresident of Taiwan (ROC) from 1975 to 1978
- Yan Junb. 1917USnot in their usual nameChinese actor and film director, producer and writer (1917-1980)
- Nancy Yenb. 1949CNnot in their usual nameactress
- Yim Hob. 1952CNnot in their usual nameHong kong film director
- 米雪b. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong television actress
- Geling Yanb. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer and screenwriter (1958- )
- Cathy Yanb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican director and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 364 | #19,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 177 | #19,505 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #14,880 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #13,284 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1994 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nghiem mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nghiem?
- A machine transcription gives /ŋiɛm˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Nghiem a male or female name?
- Nghiem 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.
- In which country does Nghiem have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 541 people named Nghiem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nghiem.
- Where is Nghiem most common?
- Nghiem is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 615 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nghiem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 541 people named Nghiem in 2020, about 1 in 615 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nghiem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nghiemThe 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, “Nghiem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.