Nguyen is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
Recently, the name Nguyen has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Nguyen. That means that a boy named Nguyen is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nguyen.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Nguyen. Boys named Nguyen have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,692 Nguyen ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 98 years in which the first name Nguyen has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2007. In general, parents name their sons Nguyen only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nguyen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Nguyen continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Nguyen that year, ranking #10,408 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Nguyen, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Nguyen is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 71 Americans in total bear this name. And these 71 men are located in only three states: California, Louisiana and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Nguyen and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Nguyen in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 267,732 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Nguyen present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Nguyen is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.
If your name is Nguyen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nguyen, you can simply say:
Nut
Goat
Unicorn
Yoyo
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nguyen
Nguyen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
G
U
Y
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
G
U
Y
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nguyen sounds like this:
