Yen

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Origin and Meaning

1) Vietnamese 安 (yên) = 'calm', 'peaceful'

2) Vietnamese 燕 (yến) = 'swallow' (bird)

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Vietnamese

Yen is a name used among immigrants from Vietnam, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

Sweden: In January 1973, 17 people were named Yen (percentage of first or only given name: 88 %) ^[1]

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Country	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[2]	117	364	108	332	9	32
Finland^[3]	n.a.	179	n.a.	173	n.a.	6
Denmark^[4]	60	n.a.	51	n.a.	9	n.a.
Norway^[5]	93	n.a.	88	n.a.	5	n.a.
^#: count of main first name only
^&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Yen.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no