Nguyet
Origin
Vietnamese
Syllables
1
Peak era
1970s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
moon; written Nguyệt in Vietnamese. A grandparent-generation classic among Vietnamese Americans, nearly always spelled without diacritics in the US; the ng- opening (roughly nwyet) is the sound English speakers stumble on, so families often set it as a middle name beside an easier first
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1970s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nguyet peaked in the 1970s.
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