Vinh
A name most Poles have never come across: only about 55 people in the country carry it, nearly all of them men. At its root it means "glory".
Vinh Pronunciation
What Vinh means
Where Vinh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vinh comes from Vietnamese, where it renders a Sino-Vietnamese word for glory. In Polish the sense is chwała. Behind it stands the character 榮, shared by Chinese and Vietnamese readers, pointing toward honor and flourishing more than toward simple fame.
For the people who carry it, Vinh stays a single clear syllable. It has no Polish diminutives and no variant spellings. What the parents write is what the child keeps. On a school class register in Kraków the name reads the same on every line.
The meaning has stayed close to the origin. Glory here leans toward standing well among others, an honor measured by name rather than noise. There is also a city called Vinh in north-central Vietnam, built on the same word. The name means chwała.
How many people are named Vinh
1 in 426924 men in Poland is named Vinh. 55 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5046 among male names.
Vinh as a middle name
Vinh is a first name for 55 men in Poland and a middle name for another 46, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1140th, between Tesfaye (46) and Vinicius (46).
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#1138 Saeed46
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#1139 Tesfaye46
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#1140 Vinh46
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#1141 Vinicius46
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#1142 Vito46