Given name
Anh
“one who offers safety and peace”
Anh is used as a given name. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who offers safety and peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who offers safety and peace.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
How it developed
From Chinese 英國 (<i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">Anh quốc</i>, “United Kingdom”), from Chinese 英 (Anh), from Mandarin 英吉利 (Yīngjílì, Anh Cát Lợi).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,296
- 715 boys · 1,581 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 98 babies
- 2025
- 28
- #6,137 for girls · #8,304 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 34% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,137 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 11.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 67 in 1984. It also appeared in 9 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, California and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (5 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 20,050 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Anh’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Anh
- Lê Đức Anh4th president of Vietnam (1920-2019)
- Anh DuongFrench actress and model (born 1960)
- Quynh AnhBelgian singerborn 1987
- Phạm Quỳnh AnhVietnamese singer and actressborn 1984
- Đào Duy Anhlexicographer (1904–1988)
- Hà Kiều AnhVietnamese beauty pageant contestantborn 1976
- Hà AnhSuper Model & Vietnam Global Runner 2008born 1982
- Trần Tuấn Anhpoliticianborn 1964
- Anh Dao TraxelVietnamese writerborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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