Given name & surname
Nga
Nga is a surname from Eastern Min. It is used in English and Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nga through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 349
- 0 boys · 349 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 43 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 43 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,003 as a first name in 2020; 197 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nga’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nga
- Linh NgaAmerican-Vietnamese film director, film producer, actress, screenwriter and news anchorborn 1982
- Dương Vân NgaVietnamese empress952–1000
- Trần Thị NgaVietnamese politicianborn 1977
- Trần Tố NgaFranco-Vietnamese journalist, resistance fighter and activistborn 1942
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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