Huy

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

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

Huy is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: “rực rỡ, sáng chói, huy hoàng”; tên trong “Phiên hệ thi” thời Minh Mạng.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 108◐
  • FIFinland1 in 344
  • SGSingapore1 in 3K

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

≈29K ●

across 6 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
265 ●

557K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 344 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

HuyLatin · Vietnamese●654K records
โฮThai · Thai●1.4K records
하오Hangul · Korean●14 records
ХаоCyrillic · Russian●4 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hao in KR South Korea, US United States, CN China and 19 more, หอ in TH Thailand and Ho in IN India.

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: “rực rỡ, sáng chói, huy hoàng”; tên trong “Phiên hệ thi” thời Minh Mạng.

Sources 1

  • Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Huy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#19655,484343K rec.—1Huy228
CN China—22,3968.2K rec.—listedHao142
MY Malaysia#25817,90623K rec.——Hao60
FI Finland—16,175△69 rec.1 in 34418KHao13
TH Thailand—12,73511K rec.—#776,638หอ105
AU Australia#9329,53712K rec.—4Hao134
US United States—8,796116K rec.1 in 38K56KHao265
GB United Kingdom—5,6026.2K rec.—4Hao69
TW Taiwan—4,7943.2K rec.——Hao117
CA Canada—3,6614.6K rec.—1Hao100
SG Singapore#1923,5535.4K rec.——Hao82
FR France—2,1122.6K rec.—799Hao161

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

Languages●

  • Vietnamese654K85%
  • English66K9%
  • 13K2%
  • Spanish6.7K1%
  • French3.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese653,75485%
English65,8159%
13,0102%
Spanish6,6921%
French3,4191%

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◐

Huy 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 name170K records spelled Huy26 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Huỷ, Hůÿ, Hũy, Huỵ, H̶̱̩̒̕u̶̯̫̇́ỹ̷̨̠̈́

  • English given name83K records spelled Huy51 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hoi, Hoei, Hồi, Hối, Hội

  • a separate given name15K records spelled Huy2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Hùy

  • Spanish given name9.1K records spelled Huy9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Huỳ, Hüÿ, Hủy, Hůÿ, Hũy

  • French given name6.1K records spelled Huy8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Singapore, China

    Also written HouY, Hui, Huí, Hųy, Hủy

  • Finnish given name1.5K records spelled Huy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hũỹ

53 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●

Huy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: huy, rực sáng/quang huy; trong bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; tên của thân phụ trong ví dụ ghép Huy + Thu để đặt tên con.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In Vietnamese, Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; nghĩa là sáng, được nêu là đồng nghĩa với Minh.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In German, Sorbian kinship term meaning ‘uncle’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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●

02550751001980199020002010202082 · 1982

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Huy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2025
Yearrecords
197513
197611
197716
197824
197923
198050
198173
198282
198378
198466
198562
198655
198756
198843
198957
199049
199154
199253
199348
199445
199543
199642
199749
199837
199942
200026
200133
200242
200333
200425
200539
200636
200720
200825
200930
201020
201127
201218
201318
201423
201521
20167
201714
201813
201915
202011
20219
202212
20239
20248
202510

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●

18001850190019502000John H. Addams, b. 1822Nguyễn Sinh Sắc, b. 1862Nguyễn Xuân Huy, b. 1915Huy Tuấn, b. 1970Ke Huy Quan, b. 1971Quốc Huy, b. 1986Nguyễn Công Huy, b. 1987Phạm Đức Huy, b. 1995Benji, b. 1997Huy Minh Nguyen, b. 2000

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 43 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Huy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.8K#2,633
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020662#36,396
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010613#36,477
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000528#39,240
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—428#2,231
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—348#3,543
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—306#3,493
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020217#2,633
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—141#3,576
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—93—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202086—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—82#1,638

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 188 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Huy?
We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Huy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Huy have the most bearers?
Huy is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled huy.
How common is Huy compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Huy is the 19th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Huy a male or female name?
Huy 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 Huy mean?
Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: “rực rỡ, sáng chói, huy hoàng”; tên trong “Phiên hệ thi” thời Minh Mạng.
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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, “Huy” — the 19th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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