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Anh

#6,136 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Flower, petal, brave, hero

Anh has been given to 2,296 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,136 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 67 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 69% girls, 31% boys all-time.

Babies named Anh, 2025

1 in 174,000

Anh over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Anh over time

In 2025, Anh went to 68% girls and 32% boys.

19752025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Anh: meaning, origin, and history

Flower, petal, brave, hero

Chinese

What Anh means

Anh means “flower, petal, brave, hero”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anh is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Anh comes through Chinese 英國, Chinese 英 and Mandarin 英吉利.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Anh is pronounced [ʔajŋ̟˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,581 girls were recorded with the name Anh between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,635 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,494 in 2020 to #6,136 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,599 in 2015 to #6,136 in 2025.

In the United States, 715 boys were recorded with the name Anh between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,535 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,533 in 2020 to #8,300 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,299 in 2015 to #8,300 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,136
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anh was born before 1996 — so the typical Anh is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,581
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (516).

Is Anh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+52
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−642
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,537
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.4%
Peak was 1984 (67)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,635
1984

Where Anh is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Anh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 88,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Anh is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Anh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 176,254 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anh around the world

Where Anh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2020
    #7,524
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1982–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,136
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 642
Best rank ever
#1,635
1984
Peak year
1984
67 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,581
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,300
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 767
Best rank ever
#1,535
1983
Peak year
1983
39 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
715
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Anh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Anh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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