Hanh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hán-Việt: hanh, hanh thông; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/han˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanh is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 353(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 41K
- CACanada≈1 in 42K
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)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 353 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
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)Hán-Việt: hanh, hanh thông; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hanh 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 | #47 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | listed | Hanh | 192 |
| US United States | — | 8,155 | 1 in 41K | 7K | Hanh | 151 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Hanh | 32 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | Hanh | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 8 | 1 in 44K | 8 | — | — |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Hanh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Virtue
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In za, sweat; perspiration
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7K | #2,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #2,837 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 19 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hanh?
- A machine transcription gives /han˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Hanh a male or female name?
- Hanh is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Hanh mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: hanh, hanh thông; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
- In which country does Hanh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 279 thousand people named Hanh in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanh.
- How common is the name Hanh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,155 people named Hanh in 2020, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Hanh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hanh is the 47th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hanh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanhThe 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, “Hanh” — the 47th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.