Thanh
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Thanh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: sound; tone; noise.
- VNVietnam1 in 35◐
- AUAustralia1 in 4.7K
- CACanada1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ●
- #950 ●
- Sources
- 253 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
1.9M records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cheng in ES Spain, CN China, HK Hong Kong.
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●
sound; tone; noise
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 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 | #2 | 2,422,327 | 1.5M rec. | — | listed | Thanh | 253 |
| AU Australia | #568 | 24,817 | 21K rec. | — | 3 | Thanh | 157 |
| GB United Kingdom | #891 | 15,877 | 20K rec. | — | listed | Thanh | 58 |
| US United States | #930 | 14,126 | 315K rec. | 1 in 24K | 39K | Thanh | 237 |
| DE Germany | — | 7,738 | 8K rec. | — | 1 | Thanh | 138 |
| CA Canada | — | 7,238 | 7.6K rec. | — | 1 | Thanh | 71 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,453△ | 208 rec. | 1 in 7K | 1.5K | — | 24 |
| RU Russia | — | 1,175 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Thanh | 20 |
| CN China | — | 1,131 | 1.9K rec. | — | listed | Cheng | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 905 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Thanh | 26 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 765 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Thanh | 20 |
| AO Angola | #68 | 725 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Thanh | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese2.3M81%
- English242K8%
- 104K4%
- Spanish32K1%
- French16K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 2,307,639 | 81% |
| English | 242,011 | 8% |
| 103,773 | 4% | |
| Spanish | 32,334 | 1% |
| French | 15,748 | 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●
Thanh 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, Hán-Việt: “thanh” = xanh trong/sạch; yếu tố tịch đạo nam trong ví dụ Cao Đài.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: thanh, trong/sạch; trong bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
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 sit-pro, be afraid
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 8 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 13 |
| 1973 | 9 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 4 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2003 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 44 years between 1954–2003. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jiang Qingb. 1914CNnot in their usual nameChinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)
- Phung Quang Thanhb. 1949VNVietnamese defense minister (1949–2021)
- Tiana Alexandrab. 1961USnot in their usual nameVietnamese-American actress
- Cai Dongqingb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameChinese entrepreneur and bussinessman
- Viet Thanh Nguyenb. 1971USAmerican author of fiction
- Liu Qingb. 1978CNnot in their usual nameChinese business executive
- Ngô Thanh Vânb. 1979VNNorwegian-Vietnamese actress, singer, dancer, model, businesswoman and filmmaker
- Pang Qingb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese figure skater
- Tila Tequilab. 1981SGnot in their usual nameAmerican television and social media personality
- Huỳnh Thị Thanh Thủyb. 2002VNVietnamese beauty pageant titleholder
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 41 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,476 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.7K | #1,476 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,316 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 871 | #1,585 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 824 | #1,749 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 756 | #1,939 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 542 | #2,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 449 | #50,348 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 362 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 329 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 278 | #709 |
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 · 460 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Thanh?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Thanh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Thanh have the most bearers?
- Thanh is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thanh.
- How common is Thanh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thanh is the 2nd most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Thanh a male or female name?
- Thanh 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 Thanh mean?
- Recorded meaning: sound; tone; noise
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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, “Thanh” — the 2nd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.