girls:
117 births since 1975
#5599 (2nd percentile)
boys:
471 births since 1975
#4115 (10th percentile)
overall:
588 births since 1975
#7151 (8th percentile)
The name Nguyen is the #7,151 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 588 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 7.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,115 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 471 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,599 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1975.
Nguyen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 . Birth data for Nguyen is available in 45 out of the 48 years between 1975 and 2022 (45 years for boys and 17 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nguyen has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Nguyen were boys.
For boys, Nguyen reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #673) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Nguyen reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #853) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nguyen".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Nguyen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Nguyen is pronounced as ngwehn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ngwihn, at 13.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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