Kinh
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: ethnically Vietnamese
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kin˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kinh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 404K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 729K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 404K (inferred from the name graph)
824 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An ethnic Vietnamese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kinh is read(measured from records)
Kinh is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Vietnamese61%
ethnically Vietnamese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English27%
An ethnic Vietnamese.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kinh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 824 | 1 in 404K | 443 | Kinh | 91 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
824 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Liu Jingb. 35not in their usual nameson of Emperor Guangwu of Han
- Tian Jingb. 992not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 3838)
- Cai Jingb. 1047not in their usual nameGrand Chancellor of Emperor Huizong of Norther Song Dynasty (1047-1126); one of the Six Thieves (traitors) of Song
- Liu Jingb. 1944CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Luo Jingb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameChinese television presenter (1961–2009)
- Wu Jingb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and director
- Liu Jingb. 1990CNnot in their usual nameswimmer
- Fang Jingnot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 55863
- Lin Jingnot in their usual namepolitician
- Chen Jingnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB=32785
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 443 | #14,330 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 381 | #14,330 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #30,256 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #10,910 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #54,091 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #38,259 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #37,585 |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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
- Where does the name Kinh come from?
- An ethnic Vietnamese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kinh?
- A machine transcription gives /kin˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Kinh a male or female name?
- Kinh 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 Kinh mean?
- In Vietnamese, ethnically Vietnamese
- In which country does Kinh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 824 people named Kinh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kinh.
- Where is Kinh most common?
- Kinh is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 404 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kinh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 824 people named Kinh in 2020, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kinh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kinhThe 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, “Kinh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.