Given name
Ngoc
“as precious as jade”
Ngoc is used as a given name. One Vietnamese interpretation is “as precious as jade.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “as precious as jade.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ngoc through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 727
- 54 boys · 673 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 55 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,591 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,591 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 47 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,554 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ngoc’s family of names
Ngoc may belong to the same name family as NNGOC. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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