Thien

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Tian in CN China, LA Laos and เทียน in TH Thailand.

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 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Thien 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 name73K records spelled Thien38 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Thiên, Thiện, Thiến, Thíệń, Ťhīêň

• English given name61K records spelled Thien19 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Thiên, Thiện, Thién, Thịên, Thiển

• a separate given name15K records spelled Thien7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Russia

  Also written Thiên, Thiè̂n, Thiện, Thiê̥n, Thiền

• Spanish given name6.5K records spelled Thien10 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Thiên, Thiện, Thiền, Thiển, T̩̔h̦̎į̄ệ̳͋n

• Khmer given name2.0K records spelled Thien4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore

  Also written Thiêñ, Thiên, Thiện

• Finnish given name1.2K records spelled Thien3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States

  Also written Thiên, Thiện

49 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tiny Yongb. 1944FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
• Joseph Vu Van Thienb. 1960VNVietnamese archbishop
• Thien Nguyenb. 1969USAmerican soccer player
• Thien Tranb. 1979VNGerman-Vietnamese writer
• Nam Leb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican poker player
• Tila Tequilab. 1981SGnot in their usual nameAmerican television and social media personality
• Quốc Thiênb. 1988VNVietnamese singer
• Duong Truong Thien Lyb. 1989VNVietnamese model
• Pham Thien Anb. 1989VNVietnamese film director and screenwriter
• Pax Jolie-Pittb. 2003VNnot in their usual nameadopted son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 216 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thien?

We estimate roughly 7.4 thousand people bear Thien (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Thien have the most bearers?

Thien is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thien.

How common is Thien compared with other names?

In Vietnam, Thien is the 66th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.

Is Thien a male or female name?

Thien 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.