Entry № 10586 · Vietnamese origin

Tien Tien — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TYEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Fairy, celestial being"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "fairy, celestial being".

Tiên is the Vietnamese word for "fairy" or "celestial being" — a supernatural being of Vietnamese folklore.

Tien is widely used in Vietnam.

Fairy. The Vietnamese ancestral mother.

The name in its native script.

Tiên
Transliteration
Tiên
Pronunciation
/ tjɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tien stands.

Tien 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.

Tiens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Âu Cơ
Vietnamese ancestral fairy mother.
Vietnamese mythology

Names connected to Tien.

The number behind Tien.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tien reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.