Quốc
From Vietnamese, where it carries the sense of "nation" or "country". In Poland just 27 men use it, all of them male, a name most people here will never come across.
Quốc Pronunciation
What Quốc means
Where Quốc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Quốc comes to Poland from Vietnamese, and its meaning is plain: nation, country. The word is Sino-Vietnamese, borrowed from the Chinese 國 (guó), and it sits inside "quốc gia", the Vietnamese word for a state. A child called Quốc holds a word that belongs to everyone.
You meet it most often as the first part of a longer given name. Quốc Anh, Quốc Bảo, Quốc Huy. Alone it stays short and blunt.
The same syllable named the writing system. "Quốc ngữ", the national language, is the Latin-based script Vietnamese children learn today. So the word for the country and the word for the alphabet share one root.
In a Warsaw class register the name may sit between Julia and Kacper. The diacritics do real work there. The hook over the o and the dot below change the sound, and Quốc still means country.
How many people are named Quốc
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Quốc. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8143 among male names.