Ngả
given name · Latin script
Meaning: way, direction, direction along a road or path
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngả is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 2.3K
- ISIceland1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 191 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nga in VN Vietnam, US United States, HK Hong Kong and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)way, direction, direction along a road or path
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ngả counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #48 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 191 | listed | Nga | 192 |
| US United States | — | 9,003 | 1 in 37K | 8.6K | Nga | 134 |
| HK Hong Kong | #120 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Nga | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 13 | Nga | 34 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Nga | 29 |
| MO Macao | #183 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Nga | 10 |
| IS Iceland | — | 12 | 1 in 29K | 12 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ngả mean, and where does it come from?
- way, direction, direction along a road or path Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ngả a male or female name?
- Ngả 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.
- In which country does Ngả have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 529 thousand people named Ngả in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nga.
- How common is the name Ngả?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,003 people named Ngả in 2020, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Ngả compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ngả is the 48th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ngả?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ng%E1%BA%A3The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ngả” — the 48th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.