Top 50 Common Vietnamese Surnames
UPDATE 2018-09-22: Links to my Master's thesis (the "project" mentioned below) are here:
I'm doing some research for a project at school and ran into this tidbit. Thought I'd share:
- Nguyễn
- Trần
- Lê
- Phạm
- Huỳnh
- Vũ
- Phan
- Trương
- Hoàng
- Ngô
- Đặng
- Đỗ
- Bùi
- Võ
- Lý
- Dương
- Lương
- Đinh
- Trịnh
- Lưu
- Đoàn
- Đào
- Thái
- Mai
- Văn
- Cao
- Vương
- Phùng
- Quách
- Tạ
- Diệp
- Tôn
- La
- Thạch
- Thi
- Thanh
- Đàm
- Vong
- Triệu
- Bưu
- Phú
- Vĩnh
- Quang
- Tiều
- Hòa
- Trang
- Giang
- Lục
- Bành
- Nghiêm
Wikipedia has a nice post on Vietnamese surnames, but they're not all in order. I added the tones so they might be off. Let me know if I muffed your last name! I'll fix it.
This list is used by the US Department of Justice and is based on several sources:
Abrahamse A. F., Morrison, P. A. & Bolton, N. M. (1994). Population Research and Policy Review: 13 383-398.
Barringer, H. R., Gardner, R. W. & Levin, M.J. (1993). Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. The Population of the United States in the 1980s.
Buechley, R. W. (1976). Generally useful ethnic search system: GUESS. University of New Mexico, Cancer Research and Treatment Cetner (mimeo).
Choi, B. C. K., Hanley, A. J., Holowaty, E. J. & Dale, D. (1993). American Journal of Epidemiology 138: 723-734
Kuo, J. & Porter, K. (1998). Health status of Asian Americans: United States, 1992-1994.
13 comments:
What about the surname Ninh?
Good question. This list only gives the top 50 common surnames, based on several sources (see original post for citations). There was a book published by a Ninh, but I don't see much else in a quick web search. Even ancestry.com doesn't pull up a surname query for Ninh (maybe you should post one?? :)
Can you find out where the surname Kim ranks in Vietnamese surname? I know there are not many Vietnamese with the last name Kim.
I'm actually not sure about Kim. The above list was compiled by the US Dept of Justice, but their references may have more information about the surname Kim.
Let us know if you find something!
Anyone know where I can find a list of Vietnamese family names with their meanings and possibly origins? I've looked and found nothing satisfactory yet.
I used to work in a Federal Detention Center and later a Federal Correctional Institution. For a while, it seemed like there was only three or four Vietnamese names. Mostly Tran, Nguyen, Hyunh, and Le. I am not saying this to be mean, but those were the most common. A lot like Smith, Jones, Brown, and Johnson I guess or in Spanish Gonzalez, Rodriguez, etc.
I think the second last surname (49th) was actually Bành, not Banh since I'm Vietnamese. But other than that, everything else was awesome. Keep up doing the great work there!
Hi Tony, thanks for pointing that out. I made the change. It's good to see that this post is still useful eight years later.
Great, xanghe! Just another thing to point out is that somehow Wikipedia has updated, adding the surname of "Hồ" into the list of "14 most common Vietnamese family names". So yeah, good NOT to see you abandon the post, even after 8 years it was published.
Yes, it does look like Wikipedia has really updated that page! That article is referring to family name distribution in Vietnam, whereas this list was compiled based on the Vietnamese American community. So that's probably the difference.
Anywhere I can go to find how many vietnamese are in a specific city? Cảm ơn
Hi earth-two, that's actually are hard question because there are so many different criteria. This link gives a sample of cities throughout the US:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Vietnamese-American_populations
I actually updated this post with my thesis which discusses the methods of finding ethnic populations, and details a unique way of using voter records and GIS to visualize Vietnamese American distribution in Orange County. Hope that helps :)
I am actually happy to glance at this webpage posts which carries tons of valuable facts, thanks for providing these kinds of data.
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