Trịnh is a
Vietnamese family name
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
. It exists in
equivalent forms in other languages of the
Sinosphere such as (
鄭, Zheng, Cheng) in
Chinese and
Korean (Jeong, Chung).
Families that bear the surname Trịnh are exclusively
Vietnamese. The surname further proliferated following the reign of the
Trịnh lords Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full na ...
in
Tonkin.
Notable people
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Trịnh lords Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full na ...
, A noble feudal clan that wielded de facto power in
Northern Vietnam between the 16th-18th centuries. Opposed the
Nguyễn lords
The Nguyễn lords (, 主阮; 1558–1777, 1780–1802), also known as the Nguyễn clan (; ), were Nguyễn dynasty's forerunner and a feudal noble clan ruling southern Đại Việt in the Revival Lê dynasty. The Nguyễn lords were membe ...
of
Southern Vietnam through a series of
civil wars.
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Trịnh Công Sơn, Vietnamese musician
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Eugene Huu Chau Trinh, the first Vietnamese-American astronaut
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Trịnh Như Khuê, First Cardinal of the Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi
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Trịnh Văn Căn, Second Cardinal of Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi
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Trinh Xuan Thuan, Big Bang theorist/scientist
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Trinh T. Minh-ha, Filmmaker
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François Trinh-Duc, French rugby union player of Vietnamese descent
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Trang Trịnh, Vietnamese pianist
See also
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Jeong (surname)
Jung () is a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정", also often spelled Jeong, Chung, Joung or Jong. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 2,407,601 people by this name in South Korea or 4.84% of the population. The ...
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Zheng (surname)
Zheng ( zh, t=鄭, s=郑, p=Zhèng, w=Cheng4, ) is a Chinese surname. It is the 7th name on the '' Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. In 2006, Zheng ranked 21st in China's list of top 100 most common surnames. Zheng belongs to the second major grou ...
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Nguyen (surname)
References
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Vietnamese-language surnames