Duy

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Duy is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: only.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 135◐
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 283
  • CACanada1 in 1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈181K ●

across 7 countries

#623 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
518 ●

4.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.7K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

DaleLatin · English●3.4M records
เดียThai · Thai●255 records
ᲓეილიGeorgian · Georgian●3 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dale in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 16 more, Htoo in MM Myanmar (Burma), SE Sweden, MY Malaysia, เดื in TH Thailand and Del in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

only

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Duy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#18632,918367K rec.—105Duy227
US United States#164172,9813.2M rec.1 in 1.9K173KDale518
GB United Kingdom#211162,658179K rec.—3Dale208
AU Australia#22998,18595K rec.—80Dale255
CA Canada#16282,95987K rec.—3Dale218
TH Thailand#70632,28118K rec.—#188,148เดื130
IT Italy#36422,46827K rec.—123Dale38
PH Philippines—18,74431K rec.——Dale110
DE Germany#87513,18314K rec.—1Dale103
SG Singapore#5110,57512K rec.——Dale42
NZ New Zealand#848,1388.6K rec.—12Dale96
RU Russia—7,7768.5K rec.——Dale24

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese652K90%
  • English34K5%
  • 8.6K1%
  • Spanish4.6K1%
  • French2.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese652,02390%
English34,0825%
8,6221%
Spanish4,5641%
French2,6571%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Duy is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name181K records spelled Duy26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore

    Also written Dûÿ, Dùy, Ďuy, Duỹ, Duỵ

  • English given name47K records spelled Duy17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Duey, Duý, Düy, Ďüÿ, Dùy

  • Spanish given name7.4K records spelled Duy8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dûÿ, Düÿ, Duÿ, Düy, Dũy

  • French given name4.6K records spelled Duy4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Ḏuy, Duỷ

  • Czech given name1.8K records spelled Duy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ďůý

  • Finnish given name1.5K records spelled Duy4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Also written Duÿ, Dũy

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Duy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: duy, chỉ/cốt yếu; trong bài đặt tên cho Điện Bàn công.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In Turkish, light bulb socket

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In prn, forearm

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040601980199020002010202059 · 1984

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Duy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1978–2024
Yearrecords
19789
197919
198023
198134
198243
198337
198459
198538
198635
198726
198840
198929
199027
199130
199232
199329
199424
199529
199619
199718
199815
199915
200020
200121
200211
200315
200410
200519
200614
20075
200811
200912
20105
20128
20138
20156
20168
20177
20197
20235
20245

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1978–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

198019902000Nguyễn Trần Duy Nhất, b. 1989Đỗ Duy Nam, b. 1990Duy Anh Tran, b. 1993Duy Quang Nguyen, b. 1993It's CHARLES., b. 1993Duy Khánh, b. 1994Nguyễn Phong Hồng Duy, b. 1996

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 39 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Duy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.2K#4,331
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—471—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020451#50,158
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—420#2,245
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010399#52,037
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—292#3,996
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000282#65,668
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—266#3,882
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—154#3,375
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020141#4,331
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020125—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019117—

Reference works 3

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 258 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Duy?
We estimate roughly 181 thousand people bear Duy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Duy have the most bearers?
Duy is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled duy.
How common is Duy compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Duy is the 18th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Duy a male or female name?
Duy is a female 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.
What does the name Duy mean?
Recorded meaning: only
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Duy” — the 18th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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