Ngoc
The name means jade, a precious stone. In Poland it barely registers: most people here have never met a Ngoc, and the roughly 135 who carry it split almost evenly between women and men.
Ngoc Pronunciation
Ngoc is pronounced NGOTS (/ngɔt͡s/).
What Ngoc means
Where Ngoc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ngoc is a Vietnamese name. In Vietnamese, Ngọc means jade, the precious stone that carvers have shaped into pendants and seals for centuries. The word sits inside many longer Vietnamese names, joined to a second syllable, so a bearer might be Bích Ngọc or Ngọc Anh. On its own it stands for the gem itself.
Jade held real value in the cultures that prized it. It was harder to work than gold and reserved for objects meant to last. To call a child Ngọc puts that stone's worth on a person.
In Poland the name arrives with Vietnamese families, one of the larger migrant communities in Warsaw. A teacher reading a class register in Praga may meet Ngoc between a Zofia and a Kacper. The spelling drops the diacritics, and the sound settles into Polish mouths as something close to "ngok."
The Polish gloss keeps it plain: klejnot, cenny. A jewel, and precious. Whatever else changes across the distance from Hanoi to Warsaw, the jade stays in the name.
How many people are named Ngoc
1 in 280871 men in Poland is named Ngoc. 135 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2853 among male names.
Ngoc's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ngoc as a middle name
Ngoc is a first name for 135 men in Poland and a middle name for another 53, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 940th, between Francisca (53) and Oleksandra (53).