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Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order.. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality is possible, in cases such as divorce, children of a single mother, or if a child didn't want to have the father's surname.
Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...
Pages in category "Vietnamese-language surnames" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bạch;
Vietnam was mentioned in Josiah Conder's 1834 Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern as the other name to refer to Annam. Annam, which originated as a Chinese name in the seventh century, was the common name of the country during the colonial period. Nationalist writer Phan Bội Châu revived the name "Vietnam" in the early 20th century ...
Vũ - Võ (武) Vietnamese Five Colors Flag. Vũ or Võ is a common Vietnamese surname that, through genealogy records, has been present in Vietnam since the 9th century.[1] [2] The Vũ surname originates from general Wǔ Hún (武浑) of the Tang Dynasty in Imperial China who was appointed governor of the Annan Protectorate (Northern Vietnam). [3]
Trần Trọng Kim (1883–1953), courtesy name Lệ Thần, Vietnamese scholar, Prime Minister of Empire of Vietnam; Trần Tử Bình (1907–1967), Vietnamese revolutionary, general of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, ambassador; Trần Văn Đôn (1917–1998), general in Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Lê is a common Vietnamese surname (third most common), written 黎 in Chữ Hán.It is pronounced /le˧˧/ in the Hanoi dialect and /lej˧˧/ in the Saigon dialect.It is usually pronounced /liː/ in English, with it being commonly mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling and pronunciation in English, Lý.
Trương or Truong is a Vietnamese surname. Individuals with the surname Trương make up approximately 2.2% of the population and rank eighth on the list of the most common surnames in Vietnam. They are primarily of Kinh ethnicity (Vietnamese people) but also include people from the Chinese, Cham, Tho, and San Diu ethnic groups in Vietnam.