Oanh
The name means oriole, the songbird, per Wiktionary. Only about 36 people in Poland carry it, most of them women, so meeting one would stay with you.
Oanh Pronunciation
Oanh is pronounced O-ahnkh (/ˈɔanx/).
What Oanh means
Where Oanh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oanh comes from Vietnamese. The word names the oriole, a songbird with a clear, carrying call. In the fuller form hoàng oanh, it names the golden oriole, the yellow bird that Vietnamese poetry sets among spring leaves.
The name belongs to girls. It has no diminutive here and no Polish variant, so on a form at the urząd it stands as written, four letters, one syllable. Polish speakers reach for wilga, the native oriole, to hear what the name holds.
Vietnamese families have carried it to Poland, where Warsaw counts one of the older Vietnamese communities in the region. A teacher reading a class register in Praga may meet Oanh between Ola and Oskar. The oriole sings before anyone sees it, and the name keeps that bird.
How many people are named Oanh
1 in 805137 women in Poland is named Oanh. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6634 among female names.
Oanh as a middle name
Oanh is a first name for 36 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1795th, between Notburga (17) and Odette (17).
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#1793 Nataly17
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#1794 Notburga17
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#1795 Oanh17
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#1796 Odette17
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#1797 Quỳnh17