Vinh
Vinh was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,528 among boys’ names; 1,551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Vinh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vinh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vinh mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Vinh is “a male given name from Chinese”
Sino-Vietnamese word from 榮.
[viŋ̟˧˥]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vinh?
#4,528 among boys’ names, 2025
Vinh fell from #3,359 in 2015 to #4,528 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 13.5 per million.
58 babies in 1983, the peak
Vinh peaked in 1983, when 58 boys were given it, #1,204 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,528 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,686 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,687 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,225 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,657 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #7,004 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,076 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,674 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,304 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,189 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,359 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,525 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,173 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,111 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,811 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,356 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,269 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,160 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,762 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,737 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,233 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,151 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,148 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,397 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,921 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,668 | 17.8 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,339 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,695 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,340 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,671 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,019 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,340 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,843 | 23.5 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,877 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,859 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,938 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,987 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,840 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,265 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,832 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 40 | #1,611 | 21.6 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,504 | 23.3 |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,204 | 32.4 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,590 | 21.5 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,333 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,652 | 20.2 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,233 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,920 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,151 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,399 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vinh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vinh has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Vinh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vinh, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,551 Americans ever recorded as Vinh. The median Vinh alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 8,249 people named Vinh (796 women and girls, 7,453 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.8 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 | 84 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 618 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 551 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 247 |
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 Vinh born?
The states with the most babies named Vinh are California, Texas and Washington, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 446 | #1,977 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 113 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Vinh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vinh is most over-represented in California: since 1976 it was given 2.2 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 boys’ 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 Vinh 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 2,230 babies since 1880, Vinh is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 58 babies (40%), the second most given that year.
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 Vinh
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 Vinh and names like it
- Compare Vinh and VianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sVinh peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vinh since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Vinh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Vinh.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Vinh alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.