Thành
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Given name of Chinese origin; cited as the temple/taboo name of Lê Thánh Tông
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰa˨˨ɲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thành is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 58(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.3K
- USUnited States1 in 15K
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)
- #544 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700,000 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 Thanh in VN Vietnam, US United States, AU Australia 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)
Given name of Chinese origin; cited as the temple/taboo name of Lê Thánh Tông.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thành 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 | #2 | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 58 | listed | Thanh | 261 |
| CN China | — | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Thanh | 15 |
| US United States | #946 | 22,782 | 1 in 15K | 14K | Thanh | 284 |
| AO Angola | #104 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Thanh | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Thành | 2 |
| AU Australia | #541 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 3 | Thanh | 167 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,453 | 1 in 7K | 1.5K | — | 23 |
| IS Iceland | — | 38 | 1 in 9.2K | 38 | — | — |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Thành 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, into
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: thành, thành thực/thành tựu; dùng trong bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương và Điện Bàn công.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Chữ lót thường dùng; không có giải thích nghĩa riêng trong đoạn.
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)
- Nguyen Huu Canhb. 1650VNnot in their usual nameGeneral of Lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu
- Nguyễn Tiểu Lab. 1863not in their usual nameVietnamese revolutionary
- To Huub. 1920VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese poet (1920–2002)
- Gu Chengb. 1934CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Thanh Thai Nguyenb. 1953VNRoman Catholic bishop
- Trấn Thànhb. 1987VNVietnamese actor, comedian, businessman, filmmaker and television presenter (born 1987)
- Mai Thuc LoanVNnot in their usual nameEmperor of Vietnam
- Ying-Cheng LaiUSnot in their usual namephysicist
- To Hien ThanhVNLy dynasty chancellor
- Wang Chengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 294328
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Thành mean, and where does it come from?
- Given name of Chinese origin; cited as the temple/taboo name of Lê Thánh Tông. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Thành?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰa˨˨ɲ/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Thành a male or female name?
- Thành 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 Thành have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Thành in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thanh.
- How common is the name Thành?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,782 people named Thành in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Thành compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thành is the 2nd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thành?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%C3%A0nhThe 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, “Thành” — the 2nd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.