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 in Tonkin.

Notable people

* Trịnh lords, A noble feudal clan that wielded de facto power in Northern Vietnam between the 16th-18th centuries. Opposed the Nguyễn lords of Southern Vietnam through a series of civil wars. * Trịnh Công Sơn, Vietnamese musician * Eugene Huu Chau Trinh, the first Vietnamese-American astronaut * Trịnh Như Khuê, First Cardinal of the Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi * Trịnh Văn Căn, Second Cardinal of Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi * Trinh Xuan Thuan, Big Bang theorist/scientist * Trinh T. Minh-ha, Filmmaker * François Trinh-Duc, French rugby union player of Vietnamese descent * Trang Trịnh, Vietnamese pianist

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Notable people

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