Entry № 5958 · Vietnamese origin

Linh Linh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LING /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Spirit, soul, sacred"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "spirit, soul, sacred".

Linh is a Vietnamese name derived from the Sino-Vietnamese character 靈, meaning "spirit," "soul," or "sacred." The same character carries the sense of something supernatural, divine, or spiritually alive.

Linh is one of the most common girl's names in Vietnam.

Spirit. The Vietnamese word for the soul.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Linh
Pronunciation
/ lɪŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Linh stands.

Linh 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.

Linhs before her.

Real people
Linh Dinh
Vietnamese-American poet and novelist (male; common Vietnamese given name).
born 1963
In fiction

Names connected to Linh.

The number behind Linh.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Linh reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.