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Minh

#2,914 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Bright

Minh has been given to 2,409 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,914 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 80 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.

Babies named Minh, 2025

1 in 77,100

Minh over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Minh over time

In 2025, Minh went to 14% girls and 86% 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.

Minh: meaning, origin, and history

Bright

Chinese

What Minh means

Minh means “bright”.

Origin, language, and formation

Minh is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Minh is pronounced [mïŋ˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,116 boys were recorded with the name Minh between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,018 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,777 in 2020 to #2,914 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,006 in 2015 to #2,914 in 2025.

In the United States, 293 girls were recorded with the name Minh between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1982; its best national rank was #3,719 in 1982.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,793 in 2015 to #12,752 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 Minh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,914
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Minh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Minh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Minhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Minh was born before 1997 — so the typical Minh is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,116
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (583).

Is Minh 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
+226
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+863
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+92
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 1982 (80)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,018
1982

Spellings of Minh

Minh is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 39.4% against Minh's 0.40%.

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 Minh is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Minh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 83,393 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 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Minh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Minh is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Minh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 442,089 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Minh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Minh around the world

Where Minh 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
    1996–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1954–2025
    #3,131
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2012
    #533
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Minh

People whose public names include Minh, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Minh in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Minh. Linked forms have their own page here.

Ming

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Minh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,914
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 863
Best rank ever
#1,018
1982
Peak year
1982
80 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,116
Count in 2025
43

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,752
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,719
1982
Peak year
1982
22 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
293
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Minh

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

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Names with a curve like Minh

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Minh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Minh

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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