Anh
One of the rare Polish names given freely to boys and girls: of the roughly 200 people who carry it, men outnumber women more than two to one. It reaches Poland from elsewhere, with senses running from "flower" to "hero".
Anh Pronunciation
Anh is pronounced AHNKH (/anx/).
What Anh means
Where Anh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name "Anh" comes to Poland from Vietnamese, far from the Latin and Slavic sources that fill most name-day calendars. It suits a boy or a girl equally. As an everyday word it means older brother, the reading a Polish dictionary records as "starszy brat". Written with a different Chinese-derived character, the same syllable turns into "flower" or "hero", so one short spelling holds several senses.
Vietnamese carries meaning through tone and through the character behind the sound. "Anh" can be a petal. It can be bravery.
Poland has one of the largest Vietnamese communities in Europe, settled mainly around Warsaw since students and workers arrived during the socialist decades. Their children grew up bilingual, and a teacher reading a class register in Warsaw now finds "Anh" between a Zofia and a Kacper without pausing. The name asks for no Polish ending and takes none.
There is no imieniny for it here, no saint, no diminutive built the Polish way. What it offers instead is direct: older brother, flower, hero, held in three letters.
How many people are named Anh
1 in 151391 men in Poland is named Anh. 204 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2202 among male names.
Anh as a middle name
Anh is a first name for 204 men in Poland and a middle name for another 313, a 39/61 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 382nd, between Dalia (316) and Ingrid (313).
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#381 Dalia316
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#382 Anh313
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#383 Ingrid313
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