Viet
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 405(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 83K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 405 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Việt in ID Indonesia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viet 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 | #31 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | listed | Viet | 203 |
| US United States | — | 4,026 | 1 in 83K | 3.8K | Viet | 154 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Việt | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 5 | Viet | 36 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 264 | 1 in 39K | 264 | — | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 22 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 182 | Viet | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Viet is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of vieō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or Vietnam entirely.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, second-person singular present indicative of viedä
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, simple past and past participle of vie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, white
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vǎn Việt Đặngb. 1920VNVietnamese military officer
- Hồ Thành Việtb. 1955VNVietnamese computer programmer (1955-2003)
- Viet Xuan Luongb. 1965USAmerican general
- Trịnh Quốc Việtb. 1966VNVietnamese sports shooter
- Viet Thanh Nguyenb. 1971USAmerican author of fiction
- Việt Túb. 1977VNVietnamese stage director, producer and writer (born 1977)
- Nguyễn Phong Việtb. 1980VNVietnamese poet and journalist
- Robert Đặng Vănb. 1984VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese former association football player
- Nguyễn Hồng Việtb. 1989VNassociation football player
- Bui Tuan VietVNVietnamese entomologist
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)
Attested in 41 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,570 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 264 | #4,287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 258 | #4,570 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 182 | #5,114 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 91 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 22 | #1,865 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #20,732 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
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
- Is Viet a male or female name?
- Viet 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 Viet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 244 thousand people named Viet in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viet.
- How common is the name Viet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,026 people named Viet in 2020, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Viet compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Viet is the 31st most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Viet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vietThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Viet” — the 31st most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.