Vietnamese Boy Names

Explore names documented in Vietnamese naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

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History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

236#972
Down 104 rank positions in five years
1954

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977.

175#1,179
Up 90 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

43#2,914
Up 863 rank positions in five years
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

10#7,870
Down 674 rank positions in five years
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

23#4,528
Up 2,476 rank positions in five years
1983

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1950.

31#3,622
Up 467 rank positions in five years
1992

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969.

12#7,088
Down 1,909 rank positions in five years
1995

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

—Unranked
—
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

8#9,442
Down 3,256 rank positions in five years
1984

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

6#11,842
Down 3,189 rank positions in five years
2000

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979.

20#4,957
Down 1,579 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

—Unranked
—
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

—Unranked
—
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1884.

—Unranked
—
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977.

6#11,844
Down 7,165 rank positions in five years
1996

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

—Unranked
—
1982

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

5#13,401
Down 3,083 rank positions in five years
1984

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917.

—Unranked
—
1961

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

9#8,492
Up 1,440 rank positions in five years
1984

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1978.

—Unranked
—
1984

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

23#4,477
Up 2,363 rank positions in five years
1985

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

14#6,408
Up 172 rank positions in five years
1992

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1888.

—Unranked
—
1990

Recorded in Vietnamese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

—Unranked
—
1982

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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