How Many People Are Named Minh?
people named Minh are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 146,437 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,409 babies named Minh in Social Security records from 1975 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
102 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Sino-Vietnamese 明 (minh) meaning "bright". A famous bearer was the communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Minh, 12.3% were girls and 87.7% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 11.7% of the babies were girls then and 3.6% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Minh alive today is about 27 years old, and 52% are under 30. Half of them were between 15 and 39 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Minh first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1982, to 102 babies. In 2025, 50 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Minh has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,018, in 1982. In 2025 it ranked #2,914. Among girls, its best rank was #3,719, in 1982.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,914 | #12,751 |
| Best rank | #1,018 (1982) | #3,719 (1982) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,262 in the 1980s | #5,553 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Minh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Minh were born in California than in any other state: about 607 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Minh was given 4.9 times as often in California and 2.9 times in Texas.
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