Huyen
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Huyen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script.
- VNVietnam1 in 182◐
- USUnited States1 in 104K
- MOMacao1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.6K ●
- Sources
- 174 ●
- 1 in 9.7K ◐
across 9 countries
273K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Huyền in HK Hong Kong.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #28 | 466,897 | 262K rec. | — | listed | Huyen | 174 |
| US United States | — | 3,189 | 9.5K rec. | 1 in 104K | 3.2K | Huyen | 128 |
| CA Canada | — | 413 | 452 rec. | — | 5 | Huyen | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 331 | 370 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 222△ | 27 rec. | 1 in 46K | 222 | — | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 129 | 164 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | 80 | 114 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 73△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 76K | 241 | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | 71 | 108 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 7 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 66 | 10 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 19 |
| TH Thailand | — | 56 | 65 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 26 |
| MO Macao | #13 | 52 | 186 rec. | — | — | Huyen | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese292K85%
- English25K7%
- 7K2%
- Spanish2.7K1%
- German1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 291,705 | 85% |
| English | 24,649 | 7% |
| 6,956 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 2,678 | 1% |
| German | 1,638 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Huyen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of huir
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 19 |
| 1983 | 20 |
| 1984 | 21 |
| 1985 | 17 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 15 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2004 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1977–2004. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yeye Nhật Hạb. 1994VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actress
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,044 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 305 | #5,044 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 300 | #70,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 243 | #78,567 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 241 | #3,115 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 222 | #4,866 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 209 | #83,618 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 124 | #6,727 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 73 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 36 | #1,627 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 36 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 34 | #2,441 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Huyen?
- We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Huyen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Huyen have the most bearers?
- Huyen is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled huyen.
- How common is Huyen compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Huyen is the 28th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Huyen a male or female name?
- Huyen 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.
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About this data
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, “Huyen” — the 28th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.