girls:
286 births since 1977
#5430 (5th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1975
#2783 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1975
#5490 (29th percentile)
The name Minh is the #5,490 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,318 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 29.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,783 (39.3% percentile) for all time with 2,032 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,430 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 286 births since 1977.
Minh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1977 for girls).
The name Minh has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Minh were boys.
For boys, Minh reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #616) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 42 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Minh ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 42.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Minh reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Minh".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Minh is pronounced as mihn, which has 1 syllables.
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