Given name & surname
Huynh
“an older brother”
Huynh is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “an older brother.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “an older brother.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Huynh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,182 as a first name in 2020; 65,148 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Huynh’s family of names
In English usage, Huynh as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Huang. In French usage, Huynh as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Huỳnh. In English usage, Huynh as a surname has a related form in Huang.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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