Quốc Anh
The name means "national hero", the country's champion. In Poland it stays vanishingly rare: only six men carry it, and no boys have been given it in years.
Quốc Anh Pronunciation
What Quốc Anh means
Where Quốc Anh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Quốc Anh comes from Vietnamese, and its two parts do exactly what the meaning promises. Quốc means country or nation. Anh carries the sense of hero or brave one. Put them together and you get "national hero, country's hero", the short meaning that sits behind the name on any Polish list. The origin here is filed simply as other, because it belongs to no European root.
This is a boy's name, and in Vietnam it is a common one. The element quốc appears in many compound names, most famously in Âu Lạc and in the word for the language itself, tiếng Việt aside. Anh turns up across dozens of names, sometimes for boys, sometimes for girls.
Now the name travels. Poland's Vietnamese community is among the largest in the country, so a boy called Quốc Anh may sit in a Warsaw class register between a Kacper and a Zofia. On an official form at the urząd the diacritics often go missing, and Quốc Anh becomes Quoc Anh.
The name has no Polish name-day. What it has is a plain, legible sense: bohater narodowy, the country's hero.
How many people are named Quốc Anh
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Quốc Anh. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #23878 among male names.