Nuyen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: France, US entertainer

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

Nuyen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • USUnited States1 in 967K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3Mfew records
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

344 people, 2010

Record sources
139 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 455K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

France, US entertainer

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nuyen 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 Nuyen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3441 in 967K361Nuyen139
PH Philippines≈100 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Nuyen4
NG Nigeria≈98 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Nuyen2
MY Malaysia≈78 est.≈1 in 455K—Nuyen4
GB United Kingdom≈51 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Nuyen18
CA Canada≈28 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Nuyen17

344 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Nuyen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nuyễn

  • a separate surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Nuyễn, Nuyến, Nuyên, Nuyển, Nuyện

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador

    Also written Nuyễn

28 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)

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)
FormalDear Nuyen,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Nuyen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020361#60,295
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010344#58,876
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000342#55,971
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Nuyen mean, and where does it come from?
France, US entertainer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Nuyen have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 344 people named Nuyen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nuyen.
How common is the name Nuyen?
In the United States, the national register counted 344 people named Nuyen in 2010, about 1 in 967 thousand residents.

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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, “Nuyen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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