Vinh
Masculine · “glory”
Vinh is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,541 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
Vinh is the Vietnamese word for glory, and it is also a city on the north-central coast that took a great deal of bombing.
How old is the name Vinh?
Vinh first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Vinh alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 1,500 people named Vinh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Vinh most popular?
Vinh peaked in 1983, reaching #1190 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 3,206 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Vinh
Vietnamese naming vocabulary is largely Sino-Vietnamese — words borrowed from Chinese over two thousand years of contact and given Vietnamese pronunciations — and vinh belongs to that layer. The city of Vinh in Nghe An province was largely destroyed in the American war and rebuilt afterwards. The name is used as a men's given name and reaches American records with Vietnamese families from the 1970s.
Meaning
glory, honor
From Sino-Vietnamese vinh, glory or honor; it appears in compounds such as vinh quang, glory, and vinh dự, honor. The city of Vinh is named with the same word.
Pronouncing Vinh
VING
One syllable with a tone in Vietnamese that English does not carry; the nh is a nasal English does not have.
Nicknames for Vinh
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 198358 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1190reached in 1983
- Change vs 2024
- +4.5%23 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Vinh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Vinh in Vietnamese — same name
- 榮 in Chinese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Vinhs among us
people named Vinh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Vinh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Atlee test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Vinh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Atlee climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Atlee's path sketches the road Vinh is walking now.
Vinh sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Vinh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Vinh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is plain and strong.
- Four letters and one syllable — as short as a name gets.
- Vin is available immediately as an English-language short form.
- The nh ending is a Vietnamese nasal that English cannot produce.
- The tone is lost entirely in English spelling and speech.
- It is close to Vin and Vince in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Vinhs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Vinh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Vinh in 2025?
- Vinh ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Vinh?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Vinh — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Vinh with classmates?
- Vinh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Vinh
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