Viet

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

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

Viet is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 179◐
  • USUnited States1 in 69K
  • ISIceland1 in 14K

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

≈5.8K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
201 ●

305K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 14K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yue in CN China, ES Spain, MY Malaysia and 1 more.

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 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Viet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#27493,700285K rec.—listedViet201
US United States—4,79017K rec.1 in 69K4.8KViet143
CA Canada—807844 rec.—3Viet41
GB United Kingdom—764813 rec.—listedViet30
CN China—352518 rec.——Yue11
ES Spain—335△44 rec.1 in 149K335Yue8
SE Sweden—264△71 rec.1 in 39K264—6
RU Russia—160190 rec.——Viet18
SG Singapore—102159 rec.——Viet15
FI Finland—75△16 rec.1 in 74K299—7
NL Netherlands—74115 rec.1 in 234K84Viet15
DK Denmark—72—1 in 82K72——

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

Languages●

  • Vietnamese383K85%
  • English34K8%
  • 7.1K2%
  • Spanish3.9K1%
  • German3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese382,52285%
English34,0248%
7,1282%
Spanish3,9191%
German2,9891%

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◐

Viet is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name121K records spelled Viet32 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Việt, Viêt, Viết, Vįêt, Vĩềt

  • English given name44K records spelled Viet18 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Việt, Viết, Viêt, Víệt, Viét

  • a separate given name9.0K records spelled Viet7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Việt, Viết, Vịêt, Viêt, Viẹt

  • French given name8.1K records spelled Viet6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Việt, Viêt, Viet', Viết

  • Spanish given name5.1K records spelled Viet8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Việt, Viết, Viêt, Vîét

  • Czech given name2.3K records spelled Viet10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Việt, Viét, Viềt, Viêt, Viết

  • Polish given name1.3K records spelled Viet3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Việt, Viết

  • Finnish given name1.1K records spelled Viet3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Viết, Việt

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.

Other recorded senses●

Viet is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of vieō

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

  • In English, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or Vietnam entirely.

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

  • In Finnish, second-person singular present indicative of viedä

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

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, simple past and past participle of vie

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

  • In vo, white

    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●

0204060801980199020002010202065 · 1982

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Viet in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2023
Yearrecords
197523
197636
197717
197830
197930
198034
198147
198265
198356
198445
198534
198642
198744
198831
198932
199018
199142
199229
199330
199435
199524
199625
199716
199815
199912
200020
200119
200221
200325
200418
200522
200617
200720
200818
200914
201013
20117
20127
201313
20147
20158
20166
20175
20188
20235

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1975–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Vǎn Việt Đặng, b. 1920Hồ Thành Việt, b. 1955Viet Xuan Luong, b. 1965Trịnh Quốc Việt, b. 1966Viet Thanh Nguyen, b. 1971Việt Tú, b. 1977Nguyễn Phong Việt, b. 1980Robert Đặng Văn, b. 1984Nguyễn Hồng Việt, b. 1989

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 40 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Viet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#4,570
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—299#2,742
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020286#73,107
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—264#4,287
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020258#4,570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010232#81,458
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000219#80,502
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—182#5,114
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202091—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200784#21,631
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199177—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—75—

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 159 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Viet?
We estimate roughly 5.8 thousand people bear Viet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Viet have the most bearers?
Viet is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled viet.
How common is Viet compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Viet is the 27th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Viet a male or female name?
Viet 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.
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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, “Viet” — the 27th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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