Ngân
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to vibrate; to resound
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ŋən˧˧/(recorded in a dictionary) Vietnamese · from Wiktionary
Ngân is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 410(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 4.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 408 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ngan in VN Vietnam, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 more.
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)to vibrate; to resound
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ngân 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 | #55 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 408 | listed | Ngan | 172 |
| US United States | — | 4,446 | 1 in 75K | 4K | Ngan | 118 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ngan | 45 |
| HK Hong Kong | #210 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Ngan | 73 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Ngan | 31 |
| MO Macao | #456 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Ngan | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Ngan | 28 |
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. 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)- Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngânb. 1954VNChairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam
- Hà Thị Kim Ngânb. 1975VNbadminton player
- Thúy Ngânb. 1991VNVietnamese actress, model and television presenter (born 1991)
- Đặng Kim Ngânb. 1991VNbadminton player
- Khả Ngânb. 1997VNVietnamese actress
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 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 Ngân mean, and where does it come from?
- to vibrate; to resound Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ngân?
- In Vietnamese /ŋən˧˧/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Ngân a male or female name?
- Ngân 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 Ngân have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 247 thousand people named Ngân in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngan.
- How common is the name Ngân?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,446 people named Ngân in 2020, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Ngân compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ngân is the 55th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ngân?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ng%C3%A2nThe 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, “Ngân” — the 55th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.