Given name
Oanh
“oriole”
Oanh is a feminine given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Oanh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 238
- 0 boys · 238 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 23 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 girls is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,373 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.
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