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date: 14 December 2024

Vietnamese Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Horace ChenHorace Chen

There are at least 1,000 Vietnamese surnames (including surnames from minority ethnic groups) recorded by scholars, but only a very small set of Vietnamese surnames (about 100) are commonly used by a large proportion of the Vietnamese people. About 90 percent of the Vietnamese population bear the fourteen most common surnames, with ... ...

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