Fewer than five US boys were named Thanh in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,061, reached in 1982. That year also had the most boys given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #10,515 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Thanh in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,483, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 40. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Thanh in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 24 babies. In all, 1,749 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 793 babies named Thanh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18 US boys were named Thanh; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 7.
Rarer spellings such as Thane, Thayne and Tan are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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.