Hanh

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hanh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: hanh, hanh thông; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 249◐
  • USUnited States1 in 48K
  • CACanada1 in 70K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.3K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
187 ●

195K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 29K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Vietnamese

Hán-Việt: hanh, hanh thông; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.

Sources 1

  • Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hanh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#44341,648170K rec.—listedHanh187
US United States—6,95422K rec.1 in 48K7KHanh139
CA Canada—1,1961.2K rec.—1Hanh37
GB United Kingdom—923975 rec.——Hanh26
SE Sweden—184△19 rec.1 in 55K184—7
MY Malaysia—117168 rec.——Hanh7
SG Singapore—91135 rec.——Hanh12
RU Russia—74102 rec.——Hanh11
IT Italy—7382 rec.——Hanh7
FI Finland—55△4 rec.1 in 101K168—2
AO Angola#8915457 rec.——Hanh2
DK Denmark—38—1 in 154K38——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese251K70%
  • English56K16%
  • 20K5%
  • Spanish6.6K2%
  • French2.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese251,08370%
English56,43816%
19,7695%
Spanish6,5962%
French2,1671%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hanh is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name80K records spelled Hanh20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Also written Hạnh, Hanḥ, Hành, Ĥạñh, Ĥạñĥ

  • English given name63K records spelled Hanh35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Hạnh, Hành, Haeñh, Hánh, Hänh

  • a separate given name21K records spelled Hanh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Hạnh, Hành, Hḁnh

  • Spanish given name8.0K records spelled Hanh5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Hạnh, Hành

  • Czech given name1.5K records spelled Hanh8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Hạnh, Hành, Ȟǎňȟ

  • Hindi given name668 records spelled Hanh7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hạnh, Hành, Hánh

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hanh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, Virtue

    as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)

  • In za, sweat; perspiration

    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●

01020304019801990200036 · 1982

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Hanh in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1976–2003
Yearrecords
197612
19775
197819
197912
198019
198118
198236
198333
198429
198522
198624
198725
198825
198921
199023
199117
199217
199315
199413
19959
199611
19979
19988
19995
200010
20015
20025
20037

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1976–2003. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Hanh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207K#2,837
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#2,837
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—184#5,533
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—183#39,509
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—178#5,209
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—168#3,875
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—55—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—38#3,136
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201936—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198236—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#11,597
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202034—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hanh?
We estimate roughly 7.3 thousand people bear Hanh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Hanh have the most bearers?
Hanh is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled hanh.
How common is Hanh compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Hanh is the 44th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Hanh a male or female name?
Hanh is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Hanh mean?
Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: hanh, hanh thông; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hanh” — the 44th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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