Quỳnh
Only a dozen people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name points to a deep red, or a flower that opens at night.
Quỳnh Pronunciation
What Quỳnh means
Where Quỳnh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Quỳnh comes from Vietnamese, and behind it sits the Sino-Vietnamese character 瓊, a word for fine red jade. That deep red gives the name one of its meanings. The other meaning grows in a garden: hoa quỳnh, the night-blooming cereus, a flower that opens after dark and closes by morning.
The Polish sense attached to the name is czystość, purity. That reading came later, drawn from the pale flower rather than from the red jade. Vietnamese families settled in Poland in large numbers, and the name traveled with them.
On a Warsaw szkoła register, Quỳnh sits among Zuzannas and Igas, its diacritics intact. Teachers learn the rising tone. The name stays whole.
Short and single-syllabled. It carries no diminutive and no variant in Polish records, so Quỳnh appears as itself on every urząd form. What the name points back to is a red jade and a flower that blooms for one night.
How many people are named Quỳnh
1 in 2254383 women in Poland is named Quỳnh. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14451 among female names.