Named after the title of Tạ Dương Minh, a settler in the Nguyen dynasty and the founder of a market of his name. The first time the name was used to refer to the land was on October 9, 1868.[1][2]
Named after Bình Hưng Hòa,[note 1]Bình Trị Đông[note 2] and Tân Tạo,[note 3][3] the three communes formerly in Bình Chánh District,[4] from which Bình Tân District was formed in 2003.[5]
The old Bình Tân District that existed from 1956 to 1972 was merged from and named after Tân Bình and northern Bình Chánh.[6]
Originally the name of a village in the era of Gia Long and Minh Mạng and shortened from the idiom "Phú nhuận ốc, đức nhuận thân" (Wealth enriches your house, but virtues enrich yourself).[11]
Originally the name of a commune in Tân Bình District, which was split from Tân Sơn Nhì Commune[note 6] and Phú Thọ Hòa Commune.[note 7][13] The district itself was split from Tân Bình District in 2003.[5]
According to Trương Vĩnh Ký, Cần Giờ is a twisted transliteration of Khmer word "Kanchoeu", meaning "the basket", as the local people often used basket boats to commute.[14][15]
According to the legends collected in Địa chí Đồng Nai, Gia Định thành thông chí and Biên Hòa Sử lược toàn biên, in the 18th century, there was a corrupted official named Võ Hữu Hoằng who then had a change of heart after visiting hell and generously spent his wealth to help people, including creating a large houseboat as a rest stop on nowadays Nhà Bè River.[20][21]
^Associate Professor, Dr. LE TRUNG HOA. "Từ địa phương chỉ địa hình trong địa danh Nam Bộ" [Local vocabulary of the terrain in the Southern region's names of places]. Faculty of Philology - Hanoi National University of Education.
