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Minh

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~2,300 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,884 among boys
Births in 2025
50 2,409 since 1880
Typical age
29 years, median

Minh popularity over time

Minh rank by birth year, 1975–2025Minh ranked #4,797 in 1975 and #2,884 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,013, in 1982.#1,000#2,884best #1,013 in 198219801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1975–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Minh in 1982 than in any other year — 102 of them. The name does not appear in the data until 1975. The 2025 position is #2,884, on 50 births.

It climbed 220 places against the previous year.

Babies named Minh per yearPeaks at 102 births in 1982.102 in 1982019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Minh?

An estimated 2,300 living Americans are called Minh. That is out of 2,409 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 290 women and 2,100 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Minh?

The typical living Minh is 29 years old. More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Minh a late 20th-century name.

Your Minh

Ages of living people named MinhHalf of living Minhs are older than 29 and half younger.median 2902040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Minh is most common

Relative to births, California carries 2.0× the national share of Minhs.

Where Minh is used more than average1 states use the name Minh more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 2.0× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Minh is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
California 75 2.0×

Is Minh a boy's or a girl's name?

12% girls88% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Mostly given to boys: 7.6% of the last ten years of births were girls. Across the whole record, 12.2% of births under the name were girls.

Minh in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Minh ranked #1,705 in 2025 on 20 births. That is 2.5× higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Notable people named Minh

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Minh Le Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod ''Counter-Strike'' 1977 18
Minh Hằng Vietnamese singer and actress 1987 10
Minh Tuyết Vietnamese singer 1976 10
Photo credits (2)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Minh

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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