Ánh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Han-Viet/Chinese chữ ánh; personal name of vua Gia Long, used in the Nguyễn royal taboo list
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/an˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ánh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 51(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 17K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #683 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anh in VN Vietnam, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Han-Viet/Chinese chữ ánh; personal name of vua Gia Long, used in the Nguyễn royal taboo list.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ánh counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #3 | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 51 | listed | Anh | 270 |
| US United States | — | 20,050 | 1 in 17K | 15K | Anh | 203 |
| AO Angola | #418 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Anh | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Anh | 76 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,327 | 1 in 7.7K | 1.3K | — | 24 |
| IS Iceland | — | 83 | 1 in 4.2K | 83 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ánh is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Given name of Emperor Gia Long; mentioned as another name he bore.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In ko-pro, middle, inside
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, середина, внутренность
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gia Longb. 1762VNnot in their usual namefounder and 1st emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam (r. 1802-04)
- Lê Thị Phi Ánhb. 1925VNBao Dai’s lover
- Nguyen Anh 9b. 1940VNVietnamese musician
- Hương Lanb. 1956VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
- Joseph Caob. 1967USnot in their usual nameVietnamese-American activist and politician
- Võ Thị Ánh Xuânb. 1970VNVietnamese politician
- Trương Ngọc Ánhb. 1976VNVietnamese Actress, model, Miss New Model International 1998
- Nguyệt Ánhb. 1984VNVietnamese actress
- Ánh Minhb. 1985USAmerican singer
- Quynh Anh Hab. 2006VNVietnamese go 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #28,444 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ánh mean, and where does it come from?
- Han-Viet/Chinese chữ ánh; personal name of vua Gia Long, used in the Nguyễn royal taboo list. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Ánh?
- A machine transcription gives /an˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Ánh a male or female name?
- Ánh 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.
- In which country does Ánh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Ánh in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anh.
- How common is the name Ánh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,050 people named Ánh in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Ánh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ánh is the 3rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1nhThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ánh” — the 3rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.