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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.