Most of the Vietnamese I know in schoool have the Nguyen last name. It sucks.

Why are there so many fu-king Nguyen's???

Perhaps they are all related..

Do you know why there are so many fu-king Nguyen's?

not really I have a few Nguyen friends though

why? are you a nguyen?

No, but I'm one of the... let me count... six common Vietnamese surnames.

Nguyen people inbreed alot. Just kidding.

you're viet? i thought you were chinese

Heyy..Watch it..My boyfriend's last name is Nguyen..
I get what you mean devilish..
I know alot of people who have the last name Nguyen.
They're not all related though..

how do you pronounce Nguyen by the way

^^^ i think its somthing like "win." i always thought it was pronounced "new-guy-en" hahhahahaha wat an idiot.


but yea there are sooo many of them..

Learn Vietnamese history and you may know why !!!

haha, 2 I was thinking the same thing for years until I met my ex gf, she was Vietnamese/chinese. I asked her that and she got pissed. I thought it was pronounced "Ung-Guy-En" she said it's "Win" How was I suppose to know?

Have any of you ever been to a Nguyen-Nguyen wedding? Where the bride and groom already has the same surname?

iam a nguyen..u got a prob ??

fukn kunt

Yeah I know.. it's even more common than Kim is in Korea.

Like he said, learn the history and you'll find out why there are so many Nguyens! But no one in my family has that last name. From marriage and cousins not even a single touch of Nguyen! I guess we beat the odds. lol

It's because the first Nguyen guy had a boatload of viagra pills and 3000 wives.

well in almost every language u got common last names...I mean just look up Smith or Johnson in the US and u get pages upon pages upon pages of people with the same name

here is the US

SMITH 2,501,922 people
JOHNSON 2,014,470 people


and in spanish is Rodriguez, or Gonzalez


why it is I don't know but I guess it happens in most countries

Yeah, but not 1/4/-1/3 of the country have the same name. 2

del

no offend but non-Viet people cant never pronounce it right unless they've been learning Viet for a while. I tried it on some of my friends, non of them were close

As long as 3-generations are not related.

How popular of a surname is Truong?

It's a pity you can't read vietnamese ( am I wrong ?) because in vietnamese history, the last Dynasty is Nguyên, and it is common for people to change their name that of the ruling dynasty in order to benefit from favours, some might experience coercitive name change because of the omnipotent imperial administration. Moreover, a lot of chinese vietnameses, heirs of Ming dynasty who fled China to settle down in South Vietnam, have adopted this name by gratitude towards the Nguyen Emperors.

hmmmz

well nguyens and le's are like common viet last names

hey isnt the last name le like from china or something so are viet's ancestors chinese? and nguyens hmmmz my mommy's last name is nguyen

yeah my mom told me that about the Nguyen last name too. mainly anyone who holds an imperial status has to change his surname to Nguyen cuz it was law back then.
I didn't know that Chinese refugees also adopted the last name. Interesting.
As for Le I think it was Lai in Chinese. at least that was what my mom told me. Truong was Cheung, Tran was Chan, Thai was Choi, Ly was Li, Pham was Fan, Vuong or Hoang was Wong, and the list goes on...some of the original Viet last names were Bui and Thi...and those are the rare ones.

yeah i dont think there are many pure viets with the last name

bui and thi

Hhm I thought Hoang/Huynh was Huang. That is my mum's last name

um .... im pure Viet and my last name is Bui

wat da hell ? ) there r ton of ppl hav surname Nguyen

My last name is Dang. People like to call me by my first and last names, sometimes last name first. i dont like that last name sometimes, but i'm used to it by now. My grandmother is a Nguyen, and my mom is a Pham.

One of my granparent was a Le another was a Lai so no they are not the same.... They were married

I have an uncle in las with the last name Lai too, but that's not the same as the Chinese Lai. I thought he was Chinese at first, but he told me that his last name originated from the Vietnamese moutain tribes, the Hmong or something like that. I forgot, and uh...you shouldn't look at spelling alone cuz Chinese don't use alphabets But anyway, I'm just basing these last names on Chinese-Viet translations and some historical texts.

As for Huang or Wong...I'm not Chinese so i'm not 100% sure, but i think they are the same except that Huang is Madarin and Wong is Cantonese.

Wow, I didn't know there was different Lai's in VN, but also I cant seem to differentiate Kinh names from Hoa ones , they're all like Ly, Tran, To, Troung , Chu Duong, Chung, Huyn all these people's claim to be Hoas but Kinhs have these names too .... Le might be pure Kinh though, my grandma was a pure Kinh with the name Le..

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LOL, take a look at other extreme. When I google my last name, all the links are pointed to me. Am I unique or what? I feel lonely

Nguyen Nguyen Nguyen, Pham Pham, Le Le, Phan Phan, Tran. God damn, I hate those fu-king last names.

ah hahahahahaha 2

Stop considering vietnamese names from the western perspective ! the name system in VN differs a lot from that used in white cultures.

Unlike westerners'name, the vietnamese name must be considered on the whole . People are identified by their surname and their first name altogether (the surname ALWAYS precedes the firstname) . In Vietnam, the surname alone doesn't matter. So for those guys, living in a western country, who want to transmit their name to their children, one way is putting you surname and first name on their surname.

As for me, all the Johnson, Andersson,Jackson, SMith, Bean, Garcia, Klein, Gross, Martin, Schumacher... suck . OK ! And I am sure that they are no better than mine.

If you aren't satisfied with your name, then change for ...Michael Jackson and never claim yourself as an vietnamese or so... It would be ridiculous to see a plain yellow asian bearing such a name . :shocked:

devilish well u knoe wat ?? GO FUK UR SELF !!!

Well if this is any consolation I am my fiancés last name is Nguyen so when we get married in a few months and she takes on my last name there will be one less Nguyen.

Well if this is any consolation I am my fiancés last name is Nguyen so when we get married in a few months and she takes on my last name there will be one less Nguyen.

Well if this is any consolation I am my fiancés last name is Nguyen so when we get married in a few months and she takes on my last name there will be one less Nguyen.

Well if this is any consolation I am my fiancés last name is Nguyen so when we get married in a few months and she takes on my last name there will be one less Nguyen.

WTHF Damn.....did every body get that the fith time around?

Sometimes comp Suck!

uhhhm... my friend have nguyen as last name... hmmm...

Yeah, it is pronounced 'win'. My brother thought it was pronounced 'na guy in'

No its not.

Huynh is pronouced "win". Anyone not Vietnamese, don't even try it because you won't be able to say it.