Nghiêm

given name · Latin script

Meaning: strict, grave, stern

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ŋiəm˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nghiêm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 615K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 838K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

541 people, 2020

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 615K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nghiem in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland and 2 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)

strict, grave, stern

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nghiêm 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.

Where Nghiêm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5411 in 615K1.4KNghiem84
DK Denmark71 in 838K6——
GB United Kingdom——87Nghiem15
MY Malaysia———Nghiem7
SG Singapore———Nghiem6
CH Switzerland——35Nghiem6

541 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nghiêm is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nghiem, Nghiệm

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nghiem, Nghiệm

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Nghiem, Nghiệm

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nghiệm, Nghiem, Nghiễm

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nghiem, Nghiệm

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Li Yanb. 150CNnot in their usual nameShu Han general (died 234)
  • Xiong Yannot in their usual nameviscount of Chu
  • Pang Yannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 189480
  • Yang Yannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 22498
  • Chen Yannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 283140
  • Yao Yannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 215232
  • You Yannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 215617
  • Zhang Yannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 279310
  • Zheng Yannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 93829
  • Fan Yannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 322697

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalChào anh Nghiêm,Hi Nghiêm, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nghiêm mean, and where does it come from?
strict, grave, stern Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Nghiêm?
A machine transcription gives /ŋiəm˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
Is Nghiêm a male or female name?
Nghiêm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Nghiêm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 541 people named Nghiêm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nghiem.
Where is Nghiêm most common?
Nghiêm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 615 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nghiêm?
In the United States, the national register counted 541 people named Nghiêm in 2020, about 1 in 615 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nghi%C3%AAm

The 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, “Nghiêm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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