Thi Hien
The name means "gentle, virtuous". Only 47 women in Poland carry it and no girl has been given it in years, so rare that most Poles have never met one.
Thi Hien Pronunciation
What Thi Hien means
Where Thi Hien comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thi Hien comes from Vietnamese, and it joins two parts. The second, Hiền, means gentle and virtuous. The first, Thị, is an old middle name once given to almost every Vietnamese girl, a marker of the female line rather than a meaning of its own. Put together, the name reads as a description of character: gentle and good.
In Poland the name is rare. It usually belongs to daughters of Vietnamese families who settled here. A teacher reading a class register in Warsaw might meet one Thi Hien among the Zuzannas and Julias.
The word hiền runs through everyday Vietnamese speech. A hiền person is kind, calm, easy to live beside. Because the Polish calendar holds no name day for Thi Hien, families keep their own dates instead. The meaning stays close to the surface: gentle, virtuous.
How many people are named Thi Hien
1 in 479656 women in Poland is named Thi Hien. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5578 among female names.