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Nguyễn (help·info) (pronounce [ŋwjěʔn] in Vietnamese; approximated as /wɪn/ in English) is the most common Vietnamese family name. By some estimates, approximately 40 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname. The Chinese surname Ruan is represented by the same Chinese character (阮), and in East Asian cultures the two are identified as the same surname.

Trivia about nguyen

  • In the late 1960s the president & vice president of South Vietnam shared this name
  • Vietnam's president & prime minister both have this family name, a very popular one there
  • Ho Chi Minh's real family name wasn't Ho, it was this, like many other Vietnamese
  • The name of the last dynasty to rule Vietnam, it's the family name of about half Vietnam's people

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