Thi Loan
A Vietnamese women's name from a word for "phoenix," the mythological bird. Only about 35 women in Poland carry it, and none have been born in years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Thi Loan Pronunciation
What Thi Loan means
Where Thi Loan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thi Loan travels to Poland from Vietnamese. The second element, Loan, names a mythical bird, the phoenix. In Vietnamese poetry, loan often pairs with phượng in the compound loan phượng, an image of a matched couple. The first element, Thị, is a traditional female middle name carried by generations of Vietnamese women.
The short meaning stays close to the bird itself: feniks, a phoenix. That is a creature of renewal in many traditions, and Vietnamese usage keeps it female and graceful.
In Poland the name arrives with Vietnamese families, one of the larger immigrant communities in the country. A teacher reading a school register in Warsaw meets Thi Loan beside Zuzanna and Wiktoria. The name has no imieniny in the Polish calendar, so its bearers borrow a date or mark none.
No Polish diminutive has settled on it. Most bearers go by Loan, the phoenix, on its own.
How many people are named Thi Loan
1 in 644110 women in Poland is named Thi Loan. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6794 among female names.