Entry № 7425 · Vietnamese origin

Nhung Nhung — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NYOONG /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Velvet"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "velvet".

Nhung means velvet — soft, rich and lustrous. It carries gentleness, warmth and a quiet luxury.

Velvet — a Vietnamese name.

The name in its native script.

Nhung
Transliteration
Nhung
Pronunciation
/ ɲuŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nhung stands.

Nhung 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.

Nhungs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nhung.

The number behind Nhung.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nhung reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.