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Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese surname, held by an estimated 40 percent of Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen . The following is an incomplete list of individuals with this surname.
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, Vietnamese-American fellow MC for Paris by Night, singer, spokesperson for "Sua Ong Chua" Phạm Xuân Ẩn , journalist, spy for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War Tran Thanh , Vietnamese comedian, actor, and a major presenter in Vietnamese television.
At the end of the Lý and the Trần dynasty there were many people who changed their names to Nguyễn and Nguyễn Phí. By the Lê dynasty, the court changed the name of the district to Kim Thành. When the Mạc dynasty fell in 1592, their descendants changed their family name to Nguyễn.
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (a former prime minister) has Nguyễn is his family name, Tấn is his middle name, and Dũng is his personal name. In Vietnamese formal usage, he is referred to as Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, but by his personal name ("Mr. Dũng") in English-language text of Vietnamese multimedia, not by his family name ("Mr. Nguyễn").
As a boy, he received a formal family name (Nguyễn Đình Lang) to register for school, but was known by his nickname (Bé Em). He received a spiritual name (Điệu Sung) as an aspirant for the monkhood; a lineage name (Trừng Quang) when he formally became a lay Buddhist; and when he ordained as a monk he received a Dharma name (Phùng ...
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.
Nguyễn Hòa Bình: Supreme People's Procuracy (President, 2011-?) Nguyễn Hới: Provisional Central Committee (standing; Feb-Oct 1930) Nguyễn Hữu An: Spring On defensive (Commander of 2nd Corps, 1975) Nguyễn Hữu Thọ: National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (Chairman) Nguyễn Hữu Tiến: 1939-1940 (supplementary) Nguyễn ...
These people were then forbidden to return to their home areas. [12] Eventually they got assimilated into the indigenous Tày surrounding population. Their common surnames include Vi, Nguyễn Đình, Nguyễn Khắc, Nguyễn Công, Hoàng Đức, Hoàng Đình, etc. This practice started in the 15th century and ended in the early 20th century.