Thanh
From Vietnamese, where one syllable carries two borrowed characters: pure like clear water, and a single colour that Polish splits into sky-blue and leaf-green. Most Poles have never met one, and it belongs to Poland's Vietnamese community, given to both boys and girls.
Thanh Pronunciation
What Thanh means
Where Thanh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thanh comes from Vietnamese, where a single syllable answers to two characters borrowed long ago from Chinese. One, 清, means clear or pure, said of water and air. The other, 青, names a band of colour that Polish keeps apart, the blue of sky and the green of new leaves. Both senses sit in the name together.
Poland has been home to a large Vietnamese community for decades, and Thanh travels with it. On a Warsaw class register the name runs short. It holds one syllable against a Zofia's three.
The word has no saint's day and no Polish diminutive, so it stays as given. A child called Thanh spells it the same at the urząd as at home. In Hanoi and in Wrocław, the name means the same, clear and blue-green at once.
How many people are named Thanh
1 in 132585 men in Poland is named Thanh. 231 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2049 among male names.
Thanh as a middle name
Thanh is a first name for 231 men in Poland and a middle name for another 106, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 693rd, between Hugon (106) and Uwe (106).
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#691 Heliodor106
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#692 Hugon106
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#693 Thanh106
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#694 Uwe106
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#695 Anzelm105