Anh
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Anh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: elder brother; used as a respectful address for a man; also 'you', 'I', or 'he' in context.
- VNVietnam1 in 41◐
- USUnited States1 in 23K
- CACanada1 in 30K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ●
- Sources
- 261 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 11 countries
1.2M records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
elder brother; used as a respectful address for a man; also 'you', 'I', or 'he' in context
Sources 1
- Vietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #4 | 2,082,097 | 1.1M rec. | — | listed | Anh | 261 |
| US United States | — | 14,577 | 79K rec. | 1 in 23K | 30K | Anh | 188 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,841 | 4K rec. | — | listed | Anh | 62 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,752 | 3K rec. | — | 7 | Anh | 67 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,327△ | 114 rec. | 1 in 7.7K | 1.3K | — | 21 |
| RU Russia | — | 496 | 669 rec. | — | — | Anh | 29 |
| SG Singapore | — | 394 | 671 rec. | — | — | Anh | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 336 | 582 rec. | — | — | Anh | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 305△ | 40 rec. | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | — | 14 |
| AO Angola | #210 | 288 | 302 rec. | — | — | Anh | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 263 | 290 rec. | — | — | Anh | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 199 | 252 rec. | 1 in 87K | 199 | Anh | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese2.1M85%
- English149K6%
- 70K3%
- Spanish21K1%
- French12K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 2,076,062 | 85% |
| English | 148,916 | 6% |
| 69,866 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 21,463 | 1% |
| French | 11,638 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Anh is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Given name of Chinese origin; cited as the name of Lê Thái Tông’s wife and mother of Nhân Tông.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, elder brother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt personal name; chữ húy đời Trần, thuộc tên bên ngoại nhà vua.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
ISO 639-3 language code for Nend.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 13 |
| 1978 | 15 |
| 1979 | 27 |
| 1980 | 53 |
| 1981 | 63 |
| 1982 | 55 |
| 1983 | 59 |
| 1984 | 67 |
| 1985 | 54 |
| 1986 | 43 |
| 1987 | 42 |
| 1988 | 35 |
| 1989 | 45 |
| 1990 | 40 |
| 1991 | 31 |
| 1992 | 36 |
| 1993 | 39 |
| 1994 | 32 |
| 1995 | 23 |
| 1996 | 35 |
| 1997 | 22 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 1999 | 28 |
| 2000 | 31 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 43 |
| 2004 | 32 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 35 |
| 2009 | 35 |
| 2010 | 29 |
| 2011 | 23 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 25 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 29 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 21 |
| 2022 | 23 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 19 |
| 2025 | 19 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mu Yingb. 1345CNnot in their usual nameChinese general
- Qiu Yingb. 1494CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1494–1552)
- Đào Duy Anhb. 1904VNlexicographer (1904–1988)
- Paul Nguyen Cong Anhb. 1919VNVietnamese "Righteous Among the Nations"
- Le Duc Anhb. 1920VN4th president of Vietnam (1920-2019)
- Anh Duongb. 1960FRFrench actress and model (born 1960)
- Trần Anh Hùngb. 1962VNFrench-Vietnamese filmmaker (born 1962)
- Phạm Quỳnh Anhb. 1984VNVietnamese singer and actress
- Quynh Anhb. 1987BEBelgian singer
- Suboib. 1990VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese rapper and singer-songwriter (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 42 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 304 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anh?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Anh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anh have the most bearers?
- Anh is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled anh.
- How common is Anh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Anh is the 4th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Anh a male or female name?
- Anh is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Anh mean?
- Recorded meaning: elder brother; used as a respectful address for a man; also 'you', 'I', or 'he' in context
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anh” — the 4th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.