Thị Hằng
This Vietnamese name means "the moon". In Poland only 37 women carry it, with no newborn girls given it since 2000: most Poles have never met one.
Thị Hằng Pronunciation
What Thị Hằng means
Where Thị Hằng comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thị Hằng comes from Vietnamese. The meaning lives in the second part. Hằng names the moon, and behind it stands Hằng Nga, the lunar lady of Vietnamese and Chinese tradition, known in Chinese as Chang'e. The first part, Thị, is the old female middle name in Vietnamese, a marker that told readers a girl was being named.
Poland now holds a large Vietnamese community, among the biggest in Central Europe, so a girl called Thị Hằng may sit in a Warsaw class register between a Zofia and a Maria. Her name would not appear on the Polish imieniny calendar. The moon it points to has no name day here.
The sense of the moon is no decoration. Hằng means it directly. In its full form the name reads as the moon lady, high in the sky. That is the whole of it: Thị Hằng, and the księżyc it holds.
How many people are named Thị Hằng
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Thị Hằng. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6520 among female names.