Ngoc
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngoc is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script.
- VNVietnam1 in 41◐
- USUnited States1 in 36K
- CACanada1 in 39K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- Sources
- 244 ●
- 1 in 4.3K ◐
across 10 countries
1.2M records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ngọc in NL Netherlands, MO Macao.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 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 | #3 | 2,092,060 | 1.1M rec. | — | listed | Ngoc | 244 |
| US United States | — | 9,317 | 86K rec. | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Ngoc | 167 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,555 | 4.7K rec. | — | — | Ngoc | 42 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,133 | 2.3K rec. | — | 1 | Ngoc | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,382△ | 404 rec. | 1 in 7.4K | 1.4K | Ngoc | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 600 | 963 rec. | — | — | Ngoc | 16 |
| RU Russia | — | 428 | 542 rec. | — | — | Ngoc | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | 416 | 676 rec. | — | — | Ngoc | 18 |
| FI Finland | — | 373△ | 49 rec. | 1 in 15K | 1.4K | — | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | 316 | 361 rec. | — | — | Ngoc | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 311 | 293 rec. | 1 in 18K | 642 | Ngoc | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 259 | 311 rec. | 1 in 67K | 259 | Ngọc | 17 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese1.6M82%
- English159K8%
- 62K3%
- Spanish23K1%
- French15K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 1,601,876 | 82% |
| English | 159,128 | 8% |
| 61,884 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 22,817 | 1% |
| French | 14,876 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 25 |
| 1981 | 45 |
| 1982 | 47 |
| 1983 | 35 |
| 1984 | 35 |
| 1985 | 17 |
| 1986 | 24 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 37 |
| 1989 | 20 |
| 1990 | 31 |
| 1991 | 23 |
| 1992 | 31 |
| 1993 | 18 |
| 1994 | 21 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 13 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hương Lanb. 1956VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
- Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnhb. 1959VNVietnamese politician
- Stephanie Murphyb. 1978USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from Florida (born 1978)
- Hồ Ngọc Hàb. 1984VNVietnamese singer and model
- Đinh Ngọc Diệpb. 1984VNVietnamese actress (born 1984)
- Minh Hằngb. 1987VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer and actress (born 1987)
- Đông Nhib. 1988VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1988)
- Dang Thi Ngoc Hanb. 1989VNBeauty pageant winner
- Amanda Nguyenb. 1991USnot in their usual namefounder and CEO of Rise
- Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Châub. 1994VNVietnamese model and television personality (born 1994)
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 38 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 395 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ngoc?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Ngoc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ngoc have the most bearers?
- Ngoc is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled ngoc.
- How common is Ngoc compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ngoc is the 3rd most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Ngoc a male or female name?
- Ngoc is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
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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, “Ngoc” — the 3rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.