Nhi
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nhi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Acronym of no human involved (“describing a crime committed against a person deemed societally undesirable”).
- VNVietnam1 in 294◐
- USUnited States1 in 68K
- ISIceland1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.5K ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 8 countries
136K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Acronym of no human involved (“describing a crime committed against a person deemed societally undesirable”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #52 | 289,690 | 125K rec. | — | listed | Nhi | 182 |
| US United States | — | 4,913 | 9.2K rec. | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Nhi | 130 |
| CA Canada | — | 383 | 406 rec. | — | 5 | Nhi | 35 |
| SE Sweden | — | 259△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 39K | 259 | — | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 133 | 207 rec. | — | listed | Nhi | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 129△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 134K | 129 | Nhi | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 119 | 185 rec. | — | — | Nhi | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 112△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 50K | 290 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | 87 | 150 rec. | — | — | Nhi | 7 |
| IN India | — | 78 | 128 rec. | — | — | Nhi | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 33 | 52 rec. | — | — | Nhi | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 31 | — | 1 in 1.2M | 31 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese291K87%
- English18K6%
- 7.6K2%
- Spanish1.7K1%
- Finnish1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 290,565 | 87% |
| English | 18,432 | 6% |
| 7,553 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 1,692 | 1% |
| Finnish | 1,068 | 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●
Nhi 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, and, and then, and yet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mzs, alternative form of nhim: girl, miss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, nasal mutation of ti
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 |
|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 32 |
| 1988 | 35 |
| 1989 | 25 |
| 1990 | 41 |
| 1991 | 40 |
| 1992 | 37 |
| 1993 | 35 |
| 1994 | 34 |
| 1995 | 41 |
| 1996 | 40 |
| 1997 | 26 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 43 |
| 2000 | 32 |
| 2001 | 40 |
| 2002 | 25 |
| 2003 | 28 |
| 2004 | 26 |
| 2005 | 34 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2007 | 37 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 27 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 14 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nhi Dob. 1986CACanadian actress
- Yaya Trương Nhib. 1990VNVietnamese actress and model
- Phùng Nguyễn Phương Nhib. 1990VNbadminton player
- Diệu Nhib. 1991VNVietnamese actress and comedian
- Nhi Leb. 1995DEGerman journalist (born 1995)
- Li Ernot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB=188090
- Lu Ernot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 162359
- Cui Ernot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 163729
- Chu Ernot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 122058
- Suo Ernot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 429891
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.9K | #3,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 423 | #3,747 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 290 | #2,857 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 259 | #4,347 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 129 | #4,742 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 126 | #6,605 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 112 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 41 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #9,948 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 40 | — |
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 · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nhi?
- We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Nhi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nhi have the most bearers?
- Nhi is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled nhi.
- How common is Nhi compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Nhi is the 52nd most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Nhi a male or female name?
- Nhi 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 Nhi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Acronym of no human involved (“describing a crime committed against a person deemed societally undesirable”).
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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, “Nhi” — the 52nd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.