Nhưng

given name · Latin script

Meaning: but; yet

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nhưng 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 82K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 39K
  • SESweden1 in 70K

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)

4,048 people, 2020

Sources
93 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nhung in US United States.

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)

but; yet

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nhưng 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 Nhưng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,0481 in 82K3.9KNhung93
SE Sweden1461 in 70K146—4
FI Finland421 in 133K128—10
PL Poland291 in 1.3M29——
DK Denmark281 in 210K28——
IS Iceland91 in 39K9——

4,048 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

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

Nhưng is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nhung, Những, Ñhüñg

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Nhung, Những, Ñhưng, Ñĥuñg

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia

    Also written Nhung, Những

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Nhung, Những

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nhũng, Nhung, Nhủng

  • Sinhala given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia

    Also written Nhung

  • Persian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nhung

5 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nhưng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nhưng mean, and where does it come from?
but; yet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Nhưng a male or female name?
Nhưng is a female 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 Nhưng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Nhưng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nhung.
Where is Nhưng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nhưng is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nhưng?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,048 people named Nhưng in 2020, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nh%C6%B0ng

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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, “Nhưng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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