Entry № 11758 · Vietnamese origin

Yen Yen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Peaceful, calm; swallow"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "peaceful, calm; swallow".

Yến is the Vietnamese word for "peaceful" or, depending on tone, "swallow" (the bird). Used widely as a feminine name in Vietnam.

Yen is widely used in Vietnam.

Peaceful swallow. The Vietnamese bird.

The name in its native script.

Yến
Transliteration
Yến
Pronunciation
/ jɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yen stands.

Yen 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.

Yens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yen
Common in Vietnamese fiction.

Names connected to Yen.

The number behind Yen.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yen reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.