Given name & surname
Văn
“literature”
Văn is a masculine given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Văn comes from Chinese, and ultimately from Chinese.
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Văn’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
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 Văn
- Đoàn Văn Hậuassociation football playerborn 1999
- Chế LinhVietnamese singer, songwriter and composerborn 1942
- Ngân Văn Đạiassociation football playerborn 1992
- Lai Van SamVietnamese journalist, television producer and presenter (born 1957)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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