How rare is the name Nhi?

5,336 people in the United States have the first name Nhi, about 1 in 56,603. It ranks #3,747 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

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#3,747

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,336
About
1 in 56,603
This common or more
83%
Who bears it

Of the 5,336 people named Nhi, 97.9% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1.1% as White. 92.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nhi peaked in 1999, when 43 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19792025
Peak year
1999
Births that year
43
In 2025*
14 ▼67%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 1,071 babies have been given the name since 1979. 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.

Nhi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #5,334. The largest share of babies named Nhi, 43.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#22,3077
1980s#7,409159
1990s#5,334360
2000s#7,620299
2010s#11,081188
2020s#16,52158
Generation X 1965–801.1%
Millennials 1981–9639.4%
Generation Z 1997–1243.4%
2013 and later16.1%

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.

Exactly as common as Nhi

1 other first name also has 5,336 people.

#3,747 Stone · 5,336

Either side of Nhi

#3,744 Thurman · 5,342#3,746 Tena · 5,339#3,747 Stone · 5,336#3,749 Marilu · 5,335

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nhi, most common first.

#5,208 Nhu · 3,339#12,828 Nhia · 957#12,935 Nha · 946#18,260 Nho · 592

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