Vinh

See also: vịnh

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Vinh.

Proper noun

Vinh (plural Vinhs)

1. A surname from Vietnamese.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Vinh is the 31001^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 749 individuals. Vinh is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (93.72%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vinh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vïŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɨn˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vɨn˧˧] ~ [jɨn˧˧]
• Homophone: vinh, vin, dinh

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 榮.

Proper noun

Vinh

1. a male given name from Chinese

Etymology 2

The city is called 永市 (“Vĩnh thị”) in Đại Nam nhất thống chí and 永城庯 (“Vĩnh thành phố”) in the Đại Nam thực lục. The occurrence of 永 (SV: vĩnh) as the city name in these adminstrative/official documents is obviously just another case of the common practice of phonetic matching to form a new tên chữ from the original tên Nôm and is of little actual etymological value.

In the past, this place was known by many names: Kẻ Vang, Kẻ Vịnh, Kẻ Vinh, Kẻ Vĩnh, Vinh Giang, Vinh Doanh.

Proper noun

Vinh • (永)

1. The provincial capital of Nghệ An, Vietnam