Nhi
Nhi was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,787 among girls’ names; 1,071 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Nhi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nhi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nhi mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Nhi is “a female given name from Chinese”
Sino-Vietnamese word from 兒.
[ɲi˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nhi?
#7,787 among girls’ names, 2025
Nhi fell from #6,646 in 2015 to #7,787 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 8.7 per million.
43 babies in 1999, the peak
Nhi peaked in 1999, when 43 girls were given it, #3,086 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,787 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,495 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,929 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,196 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,067 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,618 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,351 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,767 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,737 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,646 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 22 | #5,933 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,604 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,209 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,501 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,207 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,740 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,899 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,189 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,435 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,171 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,033 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,629 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,858 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,398 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,951 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,086 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,754 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,210 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,005 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,913 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,350 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,261 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,119 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,911 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,832 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,973 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,957 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,010 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,955 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,370 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,620 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,085 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,436 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,189 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,592 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,677 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nhi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nhi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nhi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nhi, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,071 Americans ever recorded as Nhi. The median Nhi alive today is 26 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 5,336 people named Nhi (4,913 women and girls, 423 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,003 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 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 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 171 |
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 Nhi born?
The states with the most babies named Nhi are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 97% 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 | 229 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 102 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nhi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nhi is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 1.6 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 Nhi 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 33,349 babies since 1880, Nhi is the third most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 479 babies (2.9%), 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 Nhi
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 Nhi and names like it
- Compare Nhi and NiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNhi peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nhi since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Nhi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Nhi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nhi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.