Entry № 7423 · Vietnamese origin

Nguyet Nguyet — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Moon"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "moon".

Nguyệt is the Vietnamese word for "moon" — derived from the Chinese 月 (yuè). The moon in Vietnamese culture is associated with feminine beauty and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Nguyet is widely used in Vietnam.

Moon. The Vietnamese lunar.

The name in its native script.

Nguyệt
Transliteration
Nguyệt
Pronunciation
/ ŋwiˈjɛt /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Nguyet stands.

Nguyet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nguyets before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Nguyệt
Common in Vietnamese fiction.

Names connected to Nguyet.

The number behind Nguyet.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nguyet reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.