Nguyen — #11179 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nguyen

The Social Security Administration has registered 477 babies named Nguyen between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nguyen currently holds the #11179 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Nguyen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 117 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nguyen performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nguyen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 61 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Nguyen in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nguyen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 477 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.