Hanh
The name carries the sense of "virtue, good conduct". Fewer than forty people in Poland hold it, split across women and men, so meeting one would stay with you.
Hanh Pronunciation
Hanh is pronounced KHAHNKH (/xanx/).
What Hanh means
Where Hanh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hanh comes from Vietnamese, where hạnh carries the sense of virtue and good conduct. The word traces back to Sino-Vietnamese roots, part of a family of moral terms borrowed long ago from Chinese. In Vietnam it works as a given name for women, and it names a quality rather than an object.
The meaning is direct. Hanh means virtue, good conduct. No saint or queen stands behind it, only the plain idea of behaving well toward other people.
In Poland the name arrives with Vietnamese families, one of the larger immigrant communities in the country. A teacher reading a school register in Warsaw might meet a Hanh between a Zofia and a Kacper. On a Polish form at the urząd the diacritic under the vowel drops away, so hạnh is written Hanh, and the meaning holds: virtue.
How many people are named Hanh
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Hanh. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6717 among female names.
Hanh as a middle name
Hanh is a first name for 35 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1345th, between Gudrun (28) and Ivonne (28).
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#1343 Françoise28
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#1344 Gudrun28
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#1345 Hanh28
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#1346 Ivonne28
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#1347 Loreta28