Nguyet
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
Also written Nguyệt.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nguyet has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Nguyet deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Nguyet truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Nguyet fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Nguyet travels
Vietnamese · 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
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