Minh
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Minh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.
- VNVietnam1 in 51◐
- CACanada1 in 22K
- USUnited States1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ●
- Sources
- 261 ●
- 1 in 2.7K ◐
across 11 countries
1.1M records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #5 | 1,668,286 | 981K rec. | — | — | Minh | 261 |
| US United States | — | 13,964 | 102K rec. | 1 in 24K | 14K | Minh | 198 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,827 | 5.1K rec. | — | listed | Minh | 52 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,741 | 4.1K rec. | — | 1 | Minh | 69 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,251△ | 138 rec. | 1 in 8.2K | 1.3K | — | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 389 | 472 rec. | — | — | Minh | 12 |
| RU Russia | — | 372 | 529 rec. | — | — | Minh | 22 |
| FI Finland | — | 359△ | 45 rec. | 1 in 16K | 1.3K | — | 13 |
| SG Singapore | — | 346 | 557 rec. | — | — | Minh | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 311 | 249 rec. | 1 in 56K | 311 | Minh | 26 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 299 | 50 rec. | — | — | Minh | 35 |
| NO Norway | — | 292 | 244 rec. | 1 in 19K | 642 | Minh | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese1.8M83%
- English164K8%
- 52K2%
- Spanish21K1%
- French15K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 1,758,448 | 83% |
| English | 164,132 | 8% |
| 52,159 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 21,007 | 1% |
| French | 14,930 | 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●
Minh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; nghĩa là sáng, được nêu là đồng nghĩa với Huy.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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 | 6 |
| 1976 | 21 |
| 1977 | 16 |
| 1978 | 20 |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 50 |
| 1981 | 67 |
| 1982 | 80 |
| 1983 | 70 |
| 1984 | 57 |
| 1985 | 59 |
| 1986 | 46 |
| 1987 | 50 |
| 1988 | 58 |
| 1989 | 46 |
| 1990 | 50 |
| 1991 | 42 |
| 1992 | 68 |
| 1993 | 58 |
| 1994 | 62 |
| 1995 | 40 |
| 1996 | 48 |
| 1997 | 57 |
| 1998 | 28 |
| 1999 | 33 |
| 2000 | 30 |
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 37 |
| 2003 | 50 |
| 2004 | 38 |
| 2005 | 41 |
| 2006 | 38 |
| 2007 | 45 |
| 2008 | 47 |
| 2009 | 35 |
| 2010 | 37 |
| 2011 | 40 |
| 2012 | 46 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 46 |
| 2015 | 39 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 32 |
| 2020 | 28 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2022 | 22 |
| 2023 | 33 |
| 2024 | 39 |
| 2025 | 43 |
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●
- Ho Chi Minhb. 1890VNVietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890–1969)
- Duong Van Minhb. 1916VNSouth Vietnamese commander (1916-2001)
- Đặng Nhật Minhb. 1938VNVietnamese filmmaker (born 1938)
- Trinh T. Minh-hab. 1952VNVietnamese-US American post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker
- Zhang Mingb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameChinese director
- Ming C. Linb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican computer scientist
- Leon Laib. 1966CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer and actor
- Lê Minhb. 1977CAVietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod ''Counter-Strike''
- Yao Mingb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1980)
- Nguyễn Tiến Minhb. 1983VNbadminton player
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 49 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #1,718 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #1,318 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,459 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 646 | #1,945 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 642 | #2,142 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 405 | #2,878 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 359 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 314 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 311 | #2,187 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 292 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 250 | #81,574 |
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 · 537 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Minh?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Minh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Minh have the most bearers?
- Minh is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled minh.
- How common is Minh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Minh is the 5th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Minh a male or female name?
- Minh is a male 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 Minh mean?
- Recorded meaning: Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.
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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.
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, “Minh” — the 5th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.