Ngọc
Its meaning is jade, a precious stone. In Poland it stays rare: most people have never met anyone who carries it. It goes to women and men alike, a bit more often to men.
Ngọc Pronunciation
Ngọc is pronounced NGỌTS (/ngọt͡s/).
What Ngọc means
Where Ngọc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ngọc comes from Vietnamese, where it names jade, the precious stone prized across East Asia. Written with the dấu nặng, the low heavy tone marked by a dot beneath the vowel, it belongs to a naming tradition built on words for gems and virtues. The stone is jade.
Jade in that culture was carved for seals, amulets, and burial objects, so the word held value long before it became a name. Ngọc stands alone for girls, and it often sits inside longer compounds, such as Bích Ngọc or Ngọc Anh. It works for men and women, depending on what stands beside it.
In Poland the name reaches a school register or a form at the urząd through Vietnamese families, many of them settled in Warsaw. A teacher reading down the list meets that final tone mark and slows. The Polish sense holds the same object: klejnot, drogocenny kamień, jade.
How many people are named Ngọc
1 in 304946 men in Poland is named Ngọc. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3463 among male names.
Ngọc as a middle name
Ngọc is a first name for 100 men in Poland and a middle name for another 48, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 995th, between Mina (48) and Solange (48).
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#993 Leonor48
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#994 Mina48
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#995 Ngọc48
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#996 Solange48
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#997 Sonja48