Minh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes
- France (INSEE, 2020): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/min˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minh is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 74(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 14K
- USUnited States1 in 19K
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)
- #845 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Minh 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 | #5 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 74 | — | Minh | 271 |
| US United States | — | 17,886 | 1 in 19K | 14K | Minh | 211 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 4 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Minh | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Minh | 64 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,251 | 1 in 8.2K | 1.3K | — | 19 |
| IS Iceland | — | 42 | 1 in 8.4K | 42 | — | — |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Minh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; nghĩa là sáng, được nêu là đồng nghĩa với Huy.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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)- Ho Chi Minhb. 1890VNVietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam (1890–1969)
- Duong Van Minhb. 1916VNSouth Vietnamese commander (1916-2001)
- Đặng Nhật Minhb. 1938VNVietnamese filmmaker (born 1938)
- Trinh T. Minh-hab. 1952VNVietnamese-US American post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker
- Zhang Mingb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameChinese director
- Ming C. Linb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican computer scientist
- Leon Laib. 1966CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer and actor
- Lê Minhb. 1977CAVietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod ''Counter-Strike''
- Yao Mingb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1980)
- Nguyễn Tiến Minhb. 1983VNbadminton 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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #1,718 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,459 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 314 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2011 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1988 | 3 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Minh mean?
- Recorded meaning: Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.
- What are other forms of the name Minh?
- In the etymology graph, Ming is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Minh?
- A machine transcription gives /min˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Minh a male or female name?
- Minh is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes; France (INSEE, 2020): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Minh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Minh in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minh.
- How common is the name Minh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,886 people named Minh in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Minh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Minh is the 5th 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/minhThe 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, “Minh” — the 5th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.