Nuan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nonstandard spelling of nuán
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/njuən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nuan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 760as Nguyen(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 361as Nguyen
- FIFinland1 in 748as Nguyen
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 Nuan 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 361 (inferred from the name graph)
437,645 named Nguyen, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway, as Nguyen
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nguyen in NO Norway, SE Sweden, เหงียน in VN Vietnam and Ngyuen in US United States.
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)
nonstandard spelling of nuán
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nuan 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 | 437,645as Nguyen | 1 in 760 | 531K | Ngyuen | 102 |
| NO Norway | 15,162as Nguyen | 1 in 361 | 15K | Nguyen | 8 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 39M | เหงียน | 3 |
| FI Finland | 7,450as Nguyen | 1 in 748 | 7.5K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 6,196as Nguyen | 1 in 1.6K | 6.2K | Nguyen | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 5,099as Nguyen | 1 in 1.2K | 5.1K | — | — |
437,645 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling nguyen. 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 article discusses the popularity of the surname 'Nguyễn' among Vietnamese people, published by Vietcetera.; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Nuan 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 btx, to plant, of rice, cultivated plants, trees, etc.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btx, planting, of rice, cash crops, trees, etc.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pam, blessed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In och, ‘Hot water’
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In och, ‘Warm’
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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.
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 56 | #52,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #52,133 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #27,523 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,989 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #45,458 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nuan mean, and where does it come from?
- nonstandard spelling of nuán Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nuan?
- A machine transcription gives /njuən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Nuan a male or female name?
- Nuan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nuan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 438 thousand people named Nguyen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nuan most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Nuan itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Norway's: the national register counts about 1 in 361 people named Nguyen.
- How common is the name Nuan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437,645 people named Nguyen in 2010, about 1 in 760 residents.
What do you want to know about Nuan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nuanThe 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, “Nuan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.