Meaning not yet researched.
Minh: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,018 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,018 in 1982; #2,915 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Minh in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,915 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #1,018.
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Minh: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,018 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 80 (1982).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Minh, making it the 2,915th most common boys’ name of the year, up 227 places from #3,142 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 39 boys named Minh in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,018, reached in 1982. That year also had the most boys given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #3,007 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Minh, making it the 12,756th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #3,720, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 22. For comparison, it was #15,798 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Minh in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 2,409 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 713 babies named Minh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 316 US boys were named Minh; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Minh ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,096 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Min, Mian and Minne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Vietnamese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Min (638), Mian (110), Minne (10), Myanh (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Minh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,096 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,555 | #2,456 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,756 | 43 | #2,915 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,142 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,527 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,649 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,880 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,780 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,539 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,063 | 34 | #3,349 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,657 | 36 | #3,232 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,631 | 29 | #3,744 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,798 | 39 | #3,007 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,721 | 46 | #2,650 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,931 | 23 | #4,269 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,663 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,937 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,328 | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,739 | 35 | #3,252 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,512 | 45 | #2,708 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,493 | 38 | #2,963 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,810 | 41 | #2,687 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,452 | 38 | #2,775 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,865 | 50 | #2,195 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,831 | 37 | #2,623 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,411 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,968 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,656 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,901 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,720 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,385 | 48 | #1,891 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,193 | 40 | #2,083 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,945 | 62 | #1,525 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,360 | 58 | #1,569 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,855 | 68 | #1,379 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,612 | 42 | #1,884 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,652 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,035 | 46 | #1,697 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,154 | 58 | #1,369 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,622 | 50 | #1,454 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,229 | 46 | #1,485 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,251 | 59 | #1,254 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,426 | 57 | #1,220 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,410 | 70 | #1,064 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,720 | 80 | #1,018 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,662 | 67 | #1,121 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,902 | 50 | #1,337 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,775 | 35 | #1,656 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,344 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,669 | 16 | #2,751 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,217 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,238 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).