Ngoan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: good; well-behaved; well-mannered; submissive
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ŋwaŋ˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ngoan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 729K
- USUnited States1 in 911K
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)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
365 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)good; well-behaved; well-mannered; submissive
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ngoan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 365 | 1 in 911K | 243 | Ngoan | 46 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
365 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 243 | #25,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 122 | #25,807 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #30,621 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #15,248 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #39,863 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #40,076 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ngoan mean, and where does it come from?
- good; well-behaved; well-mannered; submissive Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ngoan?
- A machine transcription gives /ŋwaŋ˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Ngoan a male or female name?
- Ngoan is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Ngoan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 365 people named Ngoan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngoan.
- Where is Ngoan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ngoan is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ngoan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 365 people named Ngoan in 2020, about 1 in 911 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/ngoanThe 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, “Ngoan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.