How Many People Are Named Thanh?
people named Thanh are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 203,080 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,749 babies named Thanh in Social Security records from 1976 to 2021, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
103 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Sino-Vietnamese 青 (thanh) meaning "blue, green, young" or 聲 (thanh) meaning "sound, voice, tone".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Thanh, 37.6% were girls and 62.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 37.9% of the babies were girls then and 38.8% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Thanh alive today is about 34 years old, and 71% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 28 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Thanh first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 1981, to 103 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2021.
Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2021
🏆 Rank History
Thanh has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,061, in 1982. Among girls, its best rank was #2,482, in 1985.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,061 (1982) | #2,482 (1985) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,417 in the 1980s | #3,108 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Thanh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Thanh were born in California than in any other state: about 390 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Thanh was given 5.5 times as often in California and 2.2 times in Texas.
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