Family name Vietnamese name
distribution of vietnamese family names
the following include other, less common, surnames, in alphabetical order:
an: 安
Ân: 殷
bạch: 白
bành: 彭
cao: 高
châu: 周
chu: 周 or 朱
chung: 鍾
chử: 褚
diệp: 葉
doãn: 尹
Đàm: 譚
Đào: 陶
Đinh: 丁
Đoàn: 段
dữu 庾
giang: 江
hà: 何
hàn: 韓
kiều: 喬
kim: 金
la: 羅
lạc: 駱
lâm: 林
liễu (in northern or central regions): 柳
lục: 陸
lương: 梁
lưu (in central or southern regions): 劉
mã: 馬
mạc: 鄚
mạch: 麥
mai: 梅
nghiêm: 嚴
ngư 魚
phí: 費
phó: 傅
phùng: 馮
quách: 郭
quang: 光
quyền: 權
tạ: 謝
thạch: 石
thái/sái: 蔡
thi: 施
thân: 伸
thảo: 草
thủy: 水
tiêu: 蕭
tô: 蘇
tôn: 孫
tống: 宋
trầm: 沈/瀋
trang: 莊
triệu: 趙
Úc/uất 郁
trịnh: 鄭 (almost exclusively northern surname, based around thanh hóa)
trương: 張
văn: 文
vĩnh: 永
vương: 王
vưu: 尤
in vietnamese cultural practice, women keep family names once marry, in other east asian cultures, including chinese culture, north , northeast.
some vietnamese have dual family names. dual family name passed through people in family, through male or female line only. in many cases mother s family name added behind father s middle name, not make dual family name, mother s family name not passed through next generation.
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