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Quoc

The name carries the sense of "nation, country". Fewer than fifty men in Poland hold it, so most Poles will never meet one.

Quoc Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
47
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#5566

What Quoc means

Where Quoc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Quốc comes from Vietnam, and its short meaning stays plain: nation, country. In Sino-Vietnamese it reads the character 國, the same graph that gives Chinese its word for a state. The syllable rarely stands alone. It joins a fuller given name and marks the person as tied to the land.

One bearer made it famous. Before the world knew him as Hồ Chí Minh, the young revolutionary signed himself Nguyễn Ái Quốc, which reads as Nguyễn who loves his country. The alias shows the syllable at work. Quốc pins the whole name to a civic idea.

In a Warsaw school register you might find Quốc among children of Vietnamese families, one of the larger migrant communities in Poland. A teacher reads the roll and reaches for the tone the Vietnamese vowel wants. The name still means what it meant at the start: country.

How many people are named Quoc

1 in 454174 men in Poland is named Quoc. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5566 among male names.

People with the name Quoc 2019 → 2025
47 -4 since 2019
2020 52 +1
2021 50 -2
2022 50 0
2023 48 -2
2024 45 -3
2025 47 +2

Quoc's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.

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<2 newborns with the name Quoc in 2025
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Quoc as a middle name

Quoc is a first name for 47 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2995th, between Quý (11) and Rajkumar (11).

As a first name
47
As a middle name
11
first name 81% middle name 19%

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