Tu
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · Last seen for boys in 2011 at #10,808
Given to boys 73.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 25 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 313since 1978
Tu over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
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| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
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| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
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| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #3,338 | 19 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | — | #2,272 | 25 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,098 | 14 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #4,554 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tu! It came in at #4,554, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tu
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2011
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1987 at #2,272 (25 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 74,679 boys born in 1987 were named Tu (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 316,542 boys born in 2011 (0.00%)
- 53.0% of all boys named Tu (166) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2017, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,182 |
| 1980s | 166 | #2,272 (1987) | #3,011 |
| 1990s | 91 | #3,338 (1992) | #6,289 |
| 2000s | 33 | #9,243 (2001) | #10,216 |
| 2010s | 6 | #10,808 (2011) | #10,808 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tu in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 191,482 of them was named Tu, which outranked 39.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 234,548 of them was named Tu, which outranked 32.7% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).