Nguyen

At the 2020 census, 531,404 Americans bore the surname Nguyen — 29th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 562.

By the numbers

People: 531,404
Rank: 29th
How common: 1 in 562
Per 100,000: 177.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nguyen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen (born 1971)American author of fiction
Marcel Nguyen (born 1987)German gymnast
Dustin Nguyen (born 1962)Vietnamese-American actor and filmmaker
Lee Nguyen (born 1986)American soccer player
Filip Nguyen (born 1992)Czech and Vietnamese association football player
Scotty Nguyen (born 1962)American poker player
Johnny Tri Nguyen (born 1974)Vietnamese-American actor and stuntman
Thai Dai Van Nguyen (born 2001)Czech chess grandmaster

People named Nguyen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Nguyen has been given to 599 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.