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Nhi

#7,787 in 2025Girls' name

Child

Nhi has been given to 1,071 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,787 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Nhi, 2025

1 in 237,000

Nhi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nhi: meaning, origin, and history

Child

Chinese

What Nhi means

Nhi means “child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nhi is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Nhi is pronounced [ɲi˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,071 girls were recorded with the name Nhi between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1999; its best national rank was #2,832 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,067 in 2020 to #7,787 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,646 in 2015 to #7,787 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 Nhi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,787
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nhi 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nhi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nhis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nhi was born before 2000 — so the typical Nhi is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,071
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (360).

Is Nhi 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
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,280
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,141
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.6%
Peak was 1999 (43)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,832
1990

Where Nhi is used

Across 1910–2025, Nhi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 107,852 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 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. Nhi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nhi around the world

Where Nhi 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
    1997–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1981–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nhi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,787
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,280
Best rank ever
#2,832
1990
Peak year
1999
43 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,071
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Nhi

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

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Sibling names for Nhi

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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