Binh
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Binh has been given to 525 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Binh, 2021
1 in 678,000
Binh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Binh over time
In 2021, Binh went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Binh?
Binh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Binh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Binh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Binhs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Binh was born before 1989 — so the typical Binh is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 487
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (207).
Is Binh 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (27)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Binh
Binh is not the most common spelling — Bill is, with 43.3% against Binh's 0.13%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Binh is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Binh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 188,784 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Louisiana1 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. Binh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Binh is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Binh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Binh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Binh around the world
Where Binh 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.
- South Australia1984–1997#543in 1997
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Binh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Binh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Binh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.