Thi
Origin
Vietnamese
Syllables
1
Peak era
1970s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
from a Chinese character meaning clan, lineage; written Thị. The traditional feminine middle name: for generations nearly every Vietnamese woman's legal name carried it (Nguyễn Thị Mai), and refugee-era US paperwork often fused it into the first name, which is why so many Vietnamese American women have Thi on their documents. Parents today mostly skip it in favor of meaningful two-part given names, making Thị itself a generational marker
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1970s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Thi peaked in the 1970s.
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