Minh

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Minh: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Minh: Recorded since 1956, it reached #310 in 1960, and it stood at #2,671 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
65times a registrar ranked it
69years from first to last
#310highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#4294
2008	#4524
2009	#3936
2010	#5707
2014	#5691
2016	#5785
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 36 of the 57 years from 1956 to 2012.

In 2012: #555 among boys in Norway, #4805 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1956–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1956
First recorded at #345 among boys in Norway in 1956 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1956–2012
Highest recorded position: #310 among boys in Norway, in 1960 (recorded 1956–2012).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Minh appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1956, and has registered 212 births with the name.

Minh across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Minh's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#345 (1956)	#310 (1960)	#555 (2012)	36 of 57	212 (1956–2012)	11 (1971)
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1991 (2005)	#2671 (2024)	22 of 29	111 (1996–2024)	9 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#4294 (2007)	#3936 (2009)	#4192 (2024)	7 of 18	27 (2007–2024)	5 (2009)

Minh by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Minh in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	11	2 of 10	6
1960s	54	9 of 10	6
1970sbusiest	52	7 of 10	7
1980s	26	5 of 10	5
1990s	30	5 of 10	6
2000s	30	6 of 10	5
2010s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Minh appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1956 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #310 in Norway in 1960.

Minh's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#555	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#516	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#493	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#489	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#554	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#468	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#540	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#564	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#526	5	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#601	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#454	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#471	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#495	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#553	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#629	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#510	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#601	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#645	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#436	9	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#621	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#458	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#513	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#483	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#366	11	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#465	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#482	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#507	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#396	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#504	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#455	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#490	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#461	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#482	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#310	10	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#470	4	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#345	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1956 and 2024, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #310, first reached in 1960.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in Norway in 1971.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 13 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 40 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Minerva · #1948, 18y
Minha · #261, 20y
Minhaj · #1345, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Angeline · #313, 49y
Iseult · #316, 47y
Ailin · #298, 52y
Nikolay · #294, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Larisa · #309, 48y
Sabine · #311, 60y
Wanja · #309, 25y
Zoran · #312, 39y

Minh was ranked #310 in Norway · Boys in 1960. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Minh and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Minh without appearing here.

Minh moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Brooke Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4805 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2248 and #4632.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4647 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2248 and #4632.

Moved ahead of Minh

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1991 and #2418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #1398.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #2018.
Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #4524 and #2150.
Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3412 and #1786.

Moved the opposite way to Minh

Adam Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 while Adam went from #213 to #67.
Aksel Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 while Aksel went from #192 to #29.
Alexander Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 while Alexander went from #415 to #20.
Alfred Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 while Alfred went from #230 to #99.

Moved the same way as Minh

Anders Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 and Anders from #64 to #202.
Arne Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 and Arne from #9 to #231.
Ben Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 and Ben from #357 to #539.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1956 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Minh went from #345 to #555 and Bjørn from #3 to #130.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1956 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #310 in Norway in 1960. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Minh

Minh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Minh across 3 official records

Minh by decade in Norway · Boys

Minh appears in

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