Where do people with the last name "Nguyen" come from?

Question

Where do people with the last name "Nguyen" come from?

Answer 1

Even though people with this surname are most often associated with Vietnam, it is of Chinese origin, written in Chinese as 阮—pronounced Ruǎn (Ruan) in Standard Mandarin and Yun (Yuen) in Cantonese (see Chinese surnames).

Some Vietnamese with this surname claim to be descended from a man named Ruan Cho, a governor of Giao Chỉ (交趾, the Sino-Vietnamese name for northern Vietnam at that time) during China's Chen Dynasty (557-589).

Throughout Vietnamese history, many events contributed to the name's prominence. In 1232, after usurping the Lý Dynasty, Trần Thủ Độ forced the descendants of the Lý to change their surname to Nguyễn. When Hồ Quý Ly overturned the Trần Dynasty, he killed many of their descendants so when the Hồ Dynasty collapsed in 1407, many of his descendants changed their surname to Nguyễn in fear of retribution. In 1592, on the collapse of the Mạc Dynasty, their descendants changed their surname to Nguyễn and Lều. When the Nguyễn Dynasty (the descendants of the Nguyễn Lords) took power in 1802, some of the descendants of the Trịnh Lords fearing retribution changed their surname to Nguyễn, while others fled north into China. The Nguyễn Dynasty awarded many people the surname Nguyễn during their rule, and many criminals also changed their surname to Nguyễn to avoid prosecution. Thus, many people having this surname are not necessarily related.[1]

In Vietnamese custom as with other East Asian cultures, the surname precedes the given names. Like many surnames in Vietnam and other Chinese-influenced cultures (including Korea and Japan), the name Nguyễn is shared with those in Chinese culture with the same surname. The Chinese/Hán Tự character for Nguyễn is 阮, which also refers to a moon-shaped lute instrument called ruan (Mandarin).

Answer 2

It is a vietnamese family name.

Answer 3

Vietnam region and its pronunced Yen.

Answer 4

cambodia ; vietnam ; etc .