Phiền
given name · Latin script
Meaning: bothersome; annoying (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phiền is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 192 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
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
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
192 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Phien in US United States, MY Malaysia, RU Russia.
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)bothersome; annoying
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Phiền 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 | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 112 | Phien | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Phien | 5 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Phien | 4 |
192 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Li Fannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 32848
- He Fannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 234411
- Lin Fannot in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 20127)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phiền mean, and where does it come from?
- bothersome; annoying Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Phiền a male or female name?
- Phiền 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Phiền?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 192 people named Phiền, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phien. After it come Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Phiền most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Phiền is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Phiền?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Phiền in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Phiền?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phi%E1%BB%81nThe 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, “Phiền” — ranked 39388th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.