Khánh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: stone chime
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xan˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khánh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 259(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 36K
- USUnited States1 in 39K
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)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 259 (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 people, est.
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 Khanh in VN Vietnam, US United States, CA Canada and 2 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)
stone chime
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khánh 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 | #23 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 259 | listed | Khanh | 217 |
| US United States | — | 8,489 | 1 in 39K | 5K | Khanh | 167 |
| AO Angola | #870 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Khanh | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Khánh | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Khanh | 40 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Khanh | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 17 | 1 in 21K | 17 | — | — |
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; 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)
Khánh 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: khánh, mừng/chúc mừng; chữ cuối bài cho Diên Khánh vương và dùng ở Điện Bàn công.
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)
- Liu Qingb. 78not in their usual nameChinese prince of the Han dynasty
- Yan Qingb. 506not in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 163925
- Song Qingb. 1820CNnot in their usual nameQing dynasty general (1820–1902)
- Khánh Hàb. 1952VNVietnamese singer
- Jiang Qingb. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese Confucian
- Zhang Qingb. 1979CNnot in their usual namebiathlete
- Duy Khánhb. 1994VNVietnamese actor, comedian, singer and television presenter (born 1995)
- Nguyễn Phương Khánhb. 1995VNVietnamese model (born 1995)
- Duan Qingnot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104722
- Shi Qingnot in their usual nameWestern Han Dynasty person CBDB = 21082
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Khánh mean, and where does it come from?
- stone chime Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Khánh?
- A machine transcription gives /xan˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Khánh a male or female name?
- Khánh 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 are other forms of the name Khánh?
- In the etymology graph, Kei is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Khánh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 381 thousand people named Khánh in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khanh.
- How common is the name Khánh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,489 people named Khánh in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Khánh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Khánh is the 23rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Khánh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kh%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, “Khánh” — the 23rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.