Entry № 8401 · Vietnamese origin

Quynh Quynh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KWIN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Night-blooming flower"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "night-blooming flower".

Quỳnh is the Vietnamese word for the rare night-blooming cereus flower — which opens only one night per year. In Vietnamese poetry, Quỳnh symbolizes fleeting beauty.

Quynh is widely used in Vietnam.

Night-blooming flower. The Vietnamese fleeting beauty.

The name in its native script.

Quỳnh
Transliteration
Quỳnh
Pronunciation
/ kwɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Quynh stands.

Quynh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Quynhs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Quỳnh
Common in Vietnamese fiction.

Names connected to Quynh.

The number behind Quynh.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Quynh reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.