Ngọc

• Origin: Vietnamese 玉
• Meaning: “jade; precious stone; gem.”
• Gender: Unisex
• Pron: gawk (with the final -c a short stop, not a full “k” release). In IPA: [ŋôk].

Ngọc is a Vietnamese given name and element of compound names, derived from the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chinese character 玉 (yù in Mandarin), meaning “jade, precious stone, gem.”

Sources

• https://www.behindthename.com/name/ngo26c
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89