Vinh

Borrowed from Vietnamese Vinh.

Vinh (plural Vinhs)

1. A surname from Vietnamese.

• 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.

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

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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 榮.

Vinh

1. a male given name from Chinese

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.

Vinh • (永)

1. The provincial capital of Nghệ An, Vietnam