"or a hierarchic pronoun, which usually connotes a degree of family relationship or kinship, in normal usage. Due to the frequency of the major family names such as Nguyễn, Trần, and Lê, persons are often referred to by their middle name along with their given name in Vietnamese media and youth culture. The Vietnamese language is tonal, and so are Vietnamese names. Names with the same spelling (ignoring diacritics) but with different tones are different names, which can confuse non-Vietnamese people when the diacritics are dropped, as is commonly done outside Vietnam. Anyone applying for Vietnamese nationality must adopt a"
"tự). Altogether, the 14 names account for 90% of the people. The following include other less-common surnames in alphabetical order: In Vietnamese cultural practice, women always keep their family names once they marry, just as in other East Asian cultures, including Chinese culture to the north and the northeast. In formal contexts, people are referred to by their full name. In more casual contexts, people are always on a ""first name basis"", which involves their given names, accompanying with proper kinship terms. There is no such thing as a ""last name basis"", or family name basis, in Vietnam. Most Vietnamese"
"Nguyen Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese family name. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Vietnamese pronunciations between south and north are similar, except for the distinct tone between the two dialects. By some estimates forty percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname. The name is most likely derived from a Chinese surname. Nguyễn is the Vietnamese transliteration of the Chinese surname (阮), which is often transliterated as Ruan in Mandarin, Yuen in Cantonese, Gnieuh in Wu Chinese, or Nguang in Hokchew. Many events in Vietnamese history have contributed to the name’s prominence. In"
"""Nguyễn Ái Quốc"") and was not known as Hồ Chí Minh until late in his career. Nguyen Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese family name. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Vietnamese pronunciations between south and north are similar, except for the distinct tone between the two dialects. By some estimates forty percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname. The name is most likely derived from a Chinese surname. Nguyễn is the Vietnamese transliteration of the Chinese surname (阮), which is often transliterated as Ruan in Mandarin, Yuen in Cantonese, Gnieuh in Wu Chinese,"
"Phạm Phạm is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name. Phạm is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chinese character . The same character is used to write the Chinese surname Fan and the Korean surname Beom (). As with other East Asian surnames derived from Chinese, it does not necessarily imply familial relations with those sharing the same surname. Although Phạm is not as common a surname among Vietnamese populations as Nguyễn, it remains prevalent. Among the global ethnic Vietnamese population, it is the 5th most common name accounting for 5% of the total 75 million. In the United States,"
"Vietnamese people The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people ( or ), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population at the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other ethnic groups in Vietnam. The earliest recorded name for the ancient Vietnamese people appears as ""Lạc"". Although geographically and linguistically labeled as Southeast Asians, long periods of Chinese domination and influence have placed the Vietnamese in the East Asian cultural sphere, or more specifically their immediate northern neighbours, the Southern Han"
"In Vietnam, the equivalent surname is ""Hà"" or Ha. Not be confused with Hu surname in Vietnamese, it's literally called ""Hồ"". In Korea, the equivalent surname is Ha. origin from Ji clan of Zhou Dynasty, and Jiang clan of Yandi He (surname) He or Ho is the Romanised transliteration of several Chinese family names. Of these family names, 何 (Pinyin: ; IPA: ) is the most common at 17th (14 million, according to 2012 survey) and 贺 (Traditional: 賀; Pinyin: Hè; IPA: ) is the second most common at 71st in the list of the top 100 most common Chinese"
"in Vietnam extends to outside the country, due to numerous and widespread Vietnamese emigrants. Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as “Nguyen”. Nguyen is the seventh most common family name in Australia (second only to Smith in the Melbourne phone books), and the 54th most common in France. In the United States, it is the 57th most-common family name according to the 2000 Census, as well as the most common exclusively East Asian surname, a major leap from its 229th-place ranking in 1990. It is ranked 124th in the U.S. Social Security Index. It is the 56th"
"and not according to the family name, with a cross-reference placed in regards to the family name. Ngô Đình Diệm would be listed as ""Diem, Ngô Dinh"" and Võ Nguyên Giáp would be listed as ""Giáp, Võ Nguyên"". Vietnamese name Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts: one patrilineal family name, one or more middle name(s) (one of which may be taken from the mother's family name), and one given name, used in that order. The ""family name first"" order follows the system of Chinese names and is common throughout the Chinese cultural sphere. However, it is different from"
"Vietnamese family life In Vietnam, the family is considered a foundation of culture and society. It also continues to set a high moral tone and the government takes advantage of this to pursue its objectives, particularly in the effort to create the Vietnamese ""new society."" Family life, hence, reflects influences of traditional Vietnamese values, the French colonial past, and state interventions. By tradition, the head of the Vietnamese family (Vietnamese: ""gia đình"" or ""nhà"") is the husband, named ""gia trưởng"". Many families which have the same origin compose a ""line of the blood"", called ""đại gia đình"" or ""gia tộc"""
"Vietnamese name Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts: one patrilineal family name, one or more middle name(s) (one of which may be taken from the mother's family name), and one given name, used in that order. The ""family name first"" order follows the system of Chinese names and is common throughout the Chinese cultural sphere. However, it is different from Chinese, Korean, and Japanese names in the usage of ""middle names"", as they are less common in China and Korea and do not exist in Japan. Persons can be referred to by the whole name, the given name"
"Phạm is the #1455 most common last name comprising about 0.008% of all last names. It is the 951st most common in France with 5,509 persons sharing that name. It is ranked 943rd in the United States Social Security Index. Notable people with the surname Phạm include: Phạm Phạm is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name. Phạm is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chinese character . The same character is used to write the Chinese surname Fan and the Korean surname Beom (). As with other East Asian surnames derived from Chinese, it does not necessarily imply familial relations"
"with development. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a vast majority of these overseas Vietnamese decided to remain in their host nations. Vietnamese people The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people ( or ), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population at the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other ethnic groups in Vietnam. The earliest recorded name for the ancient Vietnamese people appears as ""Lạc"". Although geographically and linguistically labeled as Southeast Asians, long periods of"
"marry based on love rather than arranged marriages and this level of freedom is attributed to the influence of the French during Vietnam's colonization. A Vietnamese name consists of three components, ""họ"", ""tên đệm"", and ""tên gọi"". ""Họ"" is the name of the person's line of blood. ""Tên đệm"" is the person's middle name. ""Tên"" is the person's given name. Vietnamese personal pronouns are formed according to the position of the speakers and listeners in their families. Vietnamese nuclear families usually live together in the same house. Matured and married children cannot live independently without the permission of their parents."
"which make up 7.9%, 7.4% and 7.1% respectively. Together they number close to 300 million and are easily the most common surnames in the world. In Chinese, the phrase ""third son of Zhang, fourth son of Li"" () is used to say ""just anybody"". In a 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of a random sample of 174,900 persons, with over 500 other names accounting for the remaining 4%. In a different study (1987), which combined data from Taiwan and China (sample size of 570,000 persons), the top 19 names covered 55.6%, and the top"
"are many common last names in Vietnam), and also distinguishing the gender of the names (unisex names are used widely in Vietnam). Hence, Vietnamese rarely abbreviate their middle names. For Filipinos, the middle name is usually the maternal surname, which is the maiden surname of a person's mother. The use of the maternal surname as middle name is from American influence, where Filipinos adopted English naming customs, when they once used Spanish naming customs, that used two surnames (paternal and maternal) joined with the particle ""y"" (or ""e"", before ""i""), which remains in use but became restricted to very formal"
"Vietnamese folk religion Vietnamese folk religion or Vietnamese indigenous religion (, ) is the ethnic religion of the Vietnamese people. About 45.3% of the population[1] in Vietnam are associated with this religion, making it dominant in Vietnam. Vietnamese folk religion is not an organized religious system, but a set of local worship traditions devoted to the thần, a term which can be translated as ""spirits"", ""gods"" or with the more exhaustive locution ""generative powers"". These gods can be nature deities, or national, community or kinship tutelary deities or ancestral gods, and the ancestral gods of a specific family. Ancestral gods"
"Đỗ Đỗ is a Vietnamese family name. According to Lê Trung Hoa, a Vietnamese scholar, approximately 1.4 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname. Story tells that , grandson of Shennong when passing by Nanling, he met and married a fairy named Đỗ Quý (also known as Princess Đoan Trang, she was often referred as Do Quý Thị (Lady Quý of House of Đỗ). She then gave birth to Tuc Lo, later became Kinh Dương Vương, father of Lạc Long Quân. Another person that many Vietnamese with this surname claim to be descended from is Đỗ Cảnh Thạc, a warlord"
"influenced by the government's family planning policy, the two-child policy. Source: General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Source: General Statistics Office of Vietnam. The Vietnamese government recognizes 54 ethnic groups, of which the Viet (Kinh) is the largest; according to official Vietnamese figures (2009 census), ethnic Vietnamese account for 85.7% of the nation's population and the non-Vietnamese ethnic groups account for the remaining percent. The ethnic Vietnamese inhabit a little less than half of Vietnam, while the ethnic minorities inhabit the majority of Vietnam's land (albeit the least fertile parts of the country). The Khmer Krom are found in the delta"
"parents and usually has a literal meaning in the Vietnamese language. Names often represent beauty, such as bird or flower names, or attributes and characteristics that the parents want in their child, such as modesty (""Khiêm"", 謙). Typically, Vietnamese will be addressed with their given name, even in formal situations, although an honorific equivalent to ""Mr."", ""Mrs."", etc. will be added when necessary. That contrasts with the situation in many other cultures in which the family name is used in formal situations, but it is a practice similar to usage in Icelandic usage and, to some degree, Polish. It is"
"most common surname in Norway and tops the foreign name list in the Czech Republic. In Vietnamese tradition, people are referred to by their personal names and not by their family names even in formal situations. Thus, there is not as much confusion about who is being referred to as one might expect. However, some groups distinguish themselves from other Nguyễn by passing elements of their names that are usually considered middle names to their children. This practice is more common with male than with female children. Some of the prominent subgroups within the Nguyễn family are, in no particular"
"four will appear in Her World Vietnam's January 2012 issue editorials like prize for their such efforts during the whole journey. ""(ages stated are at start of filming)"" For Vietnamese names, the ""family name"" stand(s) first, the ""given name"" stands last and the ""middle name"" is between them and right next to the given name. According to Vietnamese custom, these people should be called by ""given name"" only or ""middle name"" + ""given name"" when ""given names"" are the same. For example: Phan Ngọc Phương Nghi should be called simply Nghi or formally Phương Nghi. However, Lê Thị Thúy should"
"about 1.4 million. In Chinese history, there were two Huang Families that had ""Nine Sons"" and one son-in-law and all of them were ""Ministers"". During Southern Song dynasty, Minister Huang Weiyin 黃惟寅 had eight sons and one son-in-law, and all of them were Ministers. Three famous scholars from Zhejiang Province during late Ming and early Qing dynasty are known as ""Three Huangs of Eastern Zhejiang 浙東三黃. The Vietnamese versions of this surname are Hoàng and Huỳnh. According to Lê Trung Hoa, a Vietnamese scholar, approximately 5.1 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname. The original form of this surname was"
"the family name 于 in 2002 (about 7.4 million), and this surname is most common in Shandong province and northeastern China. Around 0.41% of the population have the surname 余 in 2002 (over five million), and it is most common in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. The 俞 surname represents around 0.12% of China's population. Yu () is one of the Chinese family names. It is listed as the 90th surname in the ""Hundred Family Surnames"". It is also sometimes translated to Yee, the Taishanese spelling, in English. The name is transliterated as ""Dư"" in Vietnamese but is very rare"
"Practically all Vietnamese, regardless of formal religious affiliation, have an altar in their home or business where prayers are offered to their ancestors. These offerings and practices are done frequently during important traditional or religious celebrations (e.g., death anniversaries), the starting of a new business, or even when a family member needs guidance or counsel. Belief in ghosts and spirits is common; it is commonly believed that failing to perform the proper rituals for one's ancestors will cause them to become hungry ghosts (). A 2002 Pew Research Center report claimed that 24% of the population of Vietnam view religion"
"templar complex of multiple buildings, while one single building is a đền. In English, in order to avoid confusion with Vietnamese Buddhist temples, đền and other words for of the Vietnamese folk religion's temples are commonly translated as ""shrine"". Vietnamese folk religion Vietnamese folk religion or Vietnamese indigenous religion (, ) is the ethnic religion of the Vietnamese people. About 45.3% of the population[1] in Vietnam are associated with this religion, making it dominant in Vietnam. Vietnamese folk religion is not an organized religious system, but a set of local worship traditions devoted to the thần, a term which can"
"polity. The Chams were subsequently absorbed by the Vietnamese and today are recognised as one of the many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. The ""Chams Balamon"" (Hindu Brahmin Chams) form a majority of the Cham population in Vietnam while most of the remainder are ""Cham Bani"" followers of Islam. The term Balamon is considered to have been derived from Brahmin, however another study suggests that 70% are considered to descend from the Nagavamshi Kshatriya caste (pronounced in Cham(?) as ""Satrias""), and claim to be the descendants of the Champa Empire. In any case a sizeable proportion of the Balamon Hindu Cham"
"Lí (surname 黎) Lí () is a Chinese surname. It is most common in Central and South China (including Hong Kong) where it is transliterated as Lai or Lye (from Cantonese), and is one of the four most common surnames among ethnic Vietnamese people, which in the Vietnamese language is Lê. It is listed 262nd in the Song Dynasty classic ""Hundred Family Surnames"". In the Vietnamese, some Chinese Li (黎) families changed their surname to Vietnamese Hà or Hồ (胡). Later one such family started the Hồ dynasty. Around the Yangtze River, any Jiuli (九黎) people got surname Li (黎)"
"the name of address. For the sake of completeness, Swedish forms often ask people to fill in all their given names and to indicate which one is their ""name of address"" (""tilltalsnamn""). Traditional middle names in Vietnamese are ""Văn"" for male names and ""Thị"" for female names. However, modern Vietnamese do not consider these to be attractive names, especially ""Thị"". Therefore, nowadays popular middle names also are popular first names. Middle names play an important role in Vietnamese full names; they could help creating beautiful names when combine with first names, distinguishing people who have the same first name (there"
"or ""họ"". The head of a ""đại gia đình"" is the man who is at the highest status in the ""đại gia đình"", named ""tộc trưởng"". According to the Vietnamese creation myth, all Vietnamese people descend from two progenitors Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ. Nine generations (Vietnamese: ""thế hệ"" or ""đời"") are recognized in terms, including: ""Kỵ (Kỵ ông/ Kỵ bà)"" : my great-grandparents' parents (my great-grandparents' father/mother) ""Cụ (Cụ ông/ Cụ bà)"" : my great-grandparents (my great-grandfather/great grandmother) ""Ông bà"" : my grandparents (my grandfather/grandmother) ""Cha Mẹ"" : my parents (father/mother) ""Ta/Tôi"" : I ""Con (Con trai/Con gái)"""
"similar to the Latin-American and southern European custom of referring to some people as ""Don"", along with their first name. Addressing someone by the family name is rare. In the past, married women in the north were called by their (maiden) family name, with ""Thị"" (氏) as a suffix. In recent years, doctors are more likely than any other social group to be addressed by their family name, but that form of reference is more common in the north than in the south. Some extremely famous people are sometimes referred to by their family names, such as Hồ Chí Minh"
"of the Vietnamese population. In 2017, 31.2% of Vietnamese Americans had attained a bachelor's degree or higher. In 2017, 51% of Vietnamese in the U.S. reported as being English proficient. The Vietnamese parents consider children's educational achievements a source of pride for the family, encouraging their children to excel in school and to enter professional fields as the ticket to a better life. Vietnam's traditional Confucianist society values education and learning, and many Vietnamese Americans have worked their way up from menial labor to have their second-generation children attend college and become successful. Compared to other Asian immigrant groups, Vietnamese"
"in 2007. Vietnam is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). The name () is a variation of (; literally ""Southern ""Việt""""), a name that can be traced back to the Triệu dynasty of the 2nd century BC. The word ""Việt"" originated as a shortened form of Bách Việt (), a group of people then living in southern China and Vietnam. The form ""Vietnam"" () is first recorded in the 16th-century oracular poem ""Sấm Trạng Trình"". The name has also been found on 12 steles"