Yến
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a swift (bird)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɛŋ˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yến is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 367(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.3K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yến itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 367 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yen in VN Vietnam, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and 3 more and Yan in CN China.
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)
a swift (bird)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yến 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 | #43 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 367 | listed | Yen | 184 |
| CN China | — | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Yan | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 62,323as Yan | 1 in 3.4K | 62K | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | #92 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Yen | 114 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Yen | 93 |
| HK Hong Kong | #666 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Yen | 14 |
| SG Singapore | #426 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Yen | 83 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 217 | 1 in 80K | 175 | Yen | 10 |
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: the vn-kaggle-given register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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)
- Zhang Yanb. 150CNnot in their usual namelate 2nd century Chinese leader of the Heishan bandits
- Xiang Yanb. 300not in their usual nameXiang Yu's grandfather
- Liao Yanb. 1644not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 91118
- Michelle Simab. 1963GBnot in their usual nameChinese actress from Hong Kong
- Yao Yanb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
- Athena Lee Yenb. 1981TWTaiwanese actress
- Lan Yanb. 1990CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress, pop singer, and model
- Hoàng Yến Chibib. 1995VNVietnamese singer and actress (born 1995)
- Yan ZhengCNnot in their usual nameChinese entomologist
- Ju Yannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 94436
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)
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Yến mean, and where does it come from?
- a swift (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yến?
- A machine transcription gives /iɛŋ˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Yến a male or female name?
- Yến 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 Yến have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 269 thousand people named Yến in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yen.
- How common is the name Yến?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 217 people named Yến, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Yến compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Yến is the 43rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yến?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%E1%BA%BFnThe 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, “Yến” — the 43rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.