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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.
Vietnamese personal names are usually three syllables long, but may also be two or four syllables. The first syllable is the family name or surname.Because certain family names, notably Nguyen, are extremely common, they cannot be used to distinguish among individuals in the manner customary in English.
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Currently "Vietnam" is most commonly used as the official name in English, leading to the adjective Vietnamese (instead of Viet, Vietic or Viet Namese) and 3-letter code VIE in IOC and FIFA (instead of VNM). In all other languages mainly written in Latin script, the name of Vietnam is also commonly written without a space. [52]
I wonder how useful these templates would be? Template:Vietnamese name and Template:Vietnamese name2 Yellowtailshark 03:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC). I think these are very useful, firstly because most people would not know that it is the custom to use given names in the ensuing text, and because many of those who are not Asian specialists but who run categorizing and standardizing campaigns will ...
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If a Vietnamese name has 4 (or more), he/she has two (or more) middle names. but the most common way to form a four-word name is to add the mother's family name as a middle name (doesn't mean he/she has a dual family name - it's a whole different thing). And i'm Vietnamese.