Entry № 11758 · Vietnamese origin

Yen Yen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Peaceful, calm; swallow"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "peaceful, calm; swallow".

Yến is the Vietnamese word for "peaceful" or, depending on tone, "swallow" (the bird). Used widely as a feminine name in Vietnam.

Yen is widely used in Vietnam.

Peaceful swallow. The Vietnamese bird.

The name in its native script.

Yến
Transliteration
Yến
Pronunciation
/ jɛn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Yen stands.

Yen does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yens before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Yen
Common in Vietnamese fiction.

Names connected to Yen.

The number behind Yen.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yen reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.