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 | |
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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 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 74,679 of them was named Tu, which outranked 72.1% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).