The Huynh surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 54,996 people carried this name — #620 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 5,360 people counted. That is up 37% from 40,011 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Huynh surname
Borrowed from Vietnamese Huỳnh, from 黃 (“yellow”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Huynh» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 988 people named Huynh.
Most of them — 857 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 34 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
709 people named Huynh live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 185 people named Huynh live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
1,985 people named Huynh are counted in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Huynh in American newspapers,
1874–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 92 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Huynh.
When the index is not enough
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