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Nguyen Toon, mythical North Vietnamese fighter pilot; Pham Nuwen, of the science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep, is treated as a far-future descendant of the Nguyen surname. Diane Nguyen, a main character in BoJack Horseman; Dong Nguyen, one of the title character's love interests in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...
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Le Van Cong, Vietnamese sports powerlifter and the first Vietnamese athlete to win a gold medal in the history of the Summer Paralympics. Lee Nguyen, professional soccer player; Ly Hoang Nam, first Vietnamese tennis player to win a Grand Slam trophy. Marcel Nguyen, German Vietnamese gymnast. Men Nguyen, professional poker player [14]
Additionally, some Vietnamese names can only be differentiated via context or with their corresponding chữ Hán, such as 南 ("south") or 男 ("men", "boy"), both are read as Nam. Anyone applying for Vietnamese nationality must also adopt a Vietnamese name. [2] Vietnamese names have corresponding Hán character adopted early on during Chinese ...
40% of all Vietnamese have the surname Nguyen. This may be because when a new dynasty took power in Vietnam it was custom to adopt that dynasty's surname. The last dynasty in Vietnam was the Nguyen dynasty, so as a result, many people have this surname.
Following is the family tree of Vietnamese monarchs from the autonomous period of the Khúc clan (905–923) to the reign of Bảo Đại (1926–1945), the last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. Emperors, kings and lords of each monarch are denoted by different colours with the period of their reigns.
Vietnamese personal names are usually three syllables long, but may also be two or four syllables. The first syllable is the family name or surname.Because certain family names, notably Nguyen, are extremely common, they cannot be used to distinguish among individuals in the manner customary in English.