The NGUYEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	310,125	57	0.115	1,150
United States (1880 census)	-1	116255	0	0
Change since 1880	+310126	+116198	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	29,798	12	0.182	1,823
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NGUYEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	109,629	10	0.324	3,237
Texas	44,889	31	0.215	2,153
Washington	14,186	17	0.241	2,407
Florida	13,716	99	0.086	858
Virginia	12,204	37	0.172	1,724
Top States for NGUYEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	109,629	10	0.324	3,237
Washington	14,186	17	0.241	2,407
Texas	44,889	31	0.215	2,153
Virginia	12,204	37	0.172	1,724
Oregon	5,543	34	0.162	1,620

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NGUYEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NGUYEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NGUYEN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NGUYEN by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NGUYEN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Vietnam

Language of origin: Vietnamese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NGUYEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NGUYEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	558	0.18
Asian/Pacific	297,503	95.93
Native American/Alaskan	124	0.04
Mixed Race	6,234	2.01
White (Caucasian)	3,908	1.26
White (Hispanic)	1,799	0.58

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NGUYEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to NGUYEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NGUYEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.