Thanh — boys' name

What the Data Says About Thanh

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,099 babies named Thanh between 1976 and 2021, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Thanh currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 74 babies received it in a single year. Thanh is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 650 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Thanh performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 494 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Thanh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 269 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Thanh in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Thanh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,099 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.