Nhien
Meaning
natural, serene; written Nhiên. The second half of An Nhiên, one of the most fashionable girls' names in Vietnam since the 2010s; younger Vietnamese American parents pick it for the calm meaning and the soft nyen sound that English handles gracefully
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nhien has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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