Huynh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: an elder brother
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hwin˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huynh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 155(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 3.1K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.2K
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)
- #773 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 452 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
≈640,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
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)
an elder brother
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huynh 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 | #10 | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | 157 | Huynh | 223 |
| US United States | #658 | 54,996 | 1 in 6K | 65K | Huynh | 452 |
| AO Angola | #48 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Huynh | 3 |
| AU Australia | #241 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 4 | Huynh | 224 |
| CA Canada | #429 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 1 | Huynh | 186 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Huynh | 10 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,814 | 1 in 3K | 1.8K | Huynh | 34 |
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 page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Huynh 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.
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Huang Xianfanb. 1899CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
- Anna May Wongb. 1905USnot in their usual nameChinese American actress (1905-1961)
- James Wongb. 1959USnot in their usual nameHong Kong and American director, screenwriter and producer
- B. D. Wongb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Anthony Wong Chau-sangb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, screenwriter and film producer (*1961)
- Jensen Huangb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
- Penny Wongb. 1968MYnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
- Lawrence Wongb. 1972SGnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Singapore since 2024
- Taob. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese singer-songwriter, rapper and actor
- Joshua Wongb. 1996CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong politician
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 41 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Huynh mean, and where does it come from?
- an elder brother Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Huynh?
- A machine transcription gives /hwin˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Huynh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 636 thousand people named Huynh in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huynh.
- How common is the name Huynh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 54,996 people named Huynh in 2010, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Huynh compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Huynh is the 10th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Huynh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huynhThe 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, “Huynh” — the 10th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.