Anh
Anh is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,136 among girls’ names and #8,300 among boys’, #8,268 among all names counting both); 2,296 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Anh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 17 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anh mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Anh is “a unisex given name from Chinese”
Sino-Vietnamese word from 英. As for the country name, contracted from Chinese 英國 /英国 (Anh quốc, “United Kingdom”), from Chinese 英 (Anh) (as in Mandarin 英吉利 (Yīngjílì, Anh Cát Lợi, “England”) or 英格蘭 /英格兰 (Yīnggélán, Anh Cách Lan, “England”)) + 國 /国 (quốc, “country”).
[ʔajŋ̟˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anh?
#6,136 among girls’ names, 2025
Anh fell from #4,599 in 2015 to #6,136 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 11.8 per million.
98 babies in 1983, the peak
Anh peaked in 1983, when 98 babies were given it (59 girls, #1,798 among girls’ names). The 28 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,136 | 9 | #8,300 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,188 | 10 | #7,803 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,436 | 15 | #5,944 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,471 | 5 | #12,466 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,763 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,494 | 10 | #7,533 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,379 | 7 | #9,814 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,674 | 8 | #8,868 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,482 | 14 | #6,070 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,434 | 19 | #4,954 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,599 | 17 | #5,299 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,323 | 11 | #7,082 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,068 | 12 | #6,623 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,052 | 6 | #10,866 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,749 | 6 | #10,888 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,868 | 5 | #12,352 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,273 | 12 | #6,824 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,365 | 10 | #7,720 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,105 | 5 | #12,470 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,824 | 13 | #6,111 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,611 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,292 | 10 | #7,000 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,350 | 12 | #5,888 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,187 | 6 | #9,451 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,327 | 7 | #8,383 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,986 | 12 | #5,591 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,090 | 12 | #5,329 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,967 | 9 | #6,344 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,666 | 10 | #5,659 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,299 | 14 | #4,402 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,352 | 11 | #5,135 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,444 | 12 | #4,810 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,990 | 23 | #2,941 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,141 | 14 | #4,113 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,442 | 7 | #6,546 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,848 | 27 | #2,487 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,524 | 25 | #2,540 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,928 | 26 | #2,300 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,435 | 17 | #2,947 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,343 | 26 | #2,159 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,997 | 33 | #1,793 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,635 | 27 | #1,978 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,798 | 39 | #1,535 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,923 | 28 | #1,930 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,769 | 28 | #1,943 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,982 | 21 | #2,367 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,081 | 12 | #3,364 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,471 | 10 | #3,625 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,917 | 13 | #3,045 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,226 | 13 | #2,953 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,539 | 5 | #5,496 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Anh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,296 Americans recorded as Anh, 69% are girls and 31% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Anh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anh, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,296 Americans ever recorded as Anh. The median Anh alive today is 32 years old; half are between 17 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 20,050 people named Anh (14,577 women and girls, 5,473 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 186 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 601 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 431 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Anh born?
The states with the most babies named Anh are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 616 | #3,148 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 202 | #3,332 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Anh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anh is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 476,586 babies since 1880, Anh is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 314 babies (8.9%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anh
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anh and names like it
- Compare Anh and AnnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAnh peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anh since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Anh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Anh.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Anh alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.