Anh
Anh is a girl's name that peaked in 1984, when it was the 1,633rd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,116th. About 2,200 Anhs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Anh boys named Anh
Girls and boys called Anh
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,581 girls and 715 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 19 to 9.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 46 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,296
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 1,633rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,116th
- First recorded
- 1975
- Girls / boys
- 1,581 / 715
How old the living Anhs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,296 babies given the name since 1975, about 2,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 630 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Anhs
- Le Duc Anh (1920–2019)4th president of Vietnam
- Võ Thị Ánh Xuân (born 1970)Vietnamese politician
- Trần Anh Hùng (born 1962)French-Vietnamese filmmaker
People named Anh with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anh is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anh is most concentrated in California (7.0×), Texas (3.0×), Louisiana (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Anh peaked:
Anh elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Anh | 220 | 2,894th |
| England and Wales girls | Anh | 136 | 2,019th |
| England and Wales boys | Anh | 133 | 2,014th |
| France girls | Anh | 130 | 1,779th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Anh by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 13 | 421st |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 5 | 490th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Anh among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Anh +1 spelling | 35 | 325 |
| Finland boys | Anh | 76 | 201 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Anh against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.