Thị Hương
Only about three dozen women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it in recent years: most Poles have never met one. It comes from the Vietnamese word for "fragrance".
Thị Hương Pronunciation
What Thị Hương means
Where Thị Hương comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thị Hương comes from Vietnamese, and the part that does the work is Hương, meaning fragrance. Hương is Sino-Vietnamese, borrowed long ago from the Chinese character 香, which names scent and incense alike. The meaning is fragrance. On this site's terms, the Polish gloss is zapach.
Thị, the first element, is a marker rather than a name of its own. For a long time it sat between the family name and the given name of Vietnamese women, showing the bearer was female. Read together, Thị Hương points to a woman called after scent. No diminutive or variant is recorded here, so Hương stands alone.
Picture the name on a class register in a Polish school, next to Zuzanna and Wiktoria. A teacher may stumble on the diacritics, the dot under the i and the hook on the o. The sound stays foreign to Polish ears, and the meaning holds. Hương is fragrance, zapach.
How many people are named Thị Hương
1 in 626218 women in Poland is named Thị Hương. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6657 among female names.