first name
MINH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 17,886 people named Minh, 97.6% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1% as two or more races. 78.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Minh peaked in 1982, when 102 babies got the name.
At least 2,409 babies have been given the name since 1975. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Minh by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #2,707. The largest share of babies named Minh, 44.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Either side of Minh
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Minh, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Minh ranks #81,574 of 156,621, with 250 people. See Minh as a last name
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