The surname Huynh
A Vietnamese surname, carried by 54,996 people in the United States.
Pronounced /(h)wɪn/ 1 syllable Soundex H500
Origin
Vietnamese origin
Borrowed from Vietnamese Huỳnh, from 黃 (“yellow”). Doublet of Huang and Wong.
One of 31 Vietnamese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 54,996 people named Huynh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 5,614 Americans. That is up 38% since 2000, when the Census counted 40,011.
Who is named Huynh
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
97% of people named Huynh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.7% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 97%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- White (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.0%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Huynh has the Soundex code H500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H500.
Other Vietnamese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Huynh come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Huỳnh, from 黃 (“yellow”). Doublet of Huang and Wong.
- How common is the surname Huynh?
- 54,996 people in the United States had the surname Huynh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,614 Americans. It ranked 620th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Huynh?
- In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Huynh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.7% as two or more races.
- How do you pronounce Huynh?
- Huynh is /(h)wɪn/, one syllable.
- Is the surname Huynh getting more or less common?
- More common. 40,011 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 54,996 in 2010, up 38%.