Thư
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thư is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and Japanese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: letter.
- VNVietnam1 in 78◐
- LALaos1 in 889
- USUnited States1 in 34K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 223 ●
- 1 in 4.3K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
687K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Thu in VN Vietnam, US United States, LA Laos and 8 more, 'ฐ in TH Thailand and Rila in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
letter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #9 | 1,085,798 | 629K rec. | — | listed | Thu | 223 |
| US United States | — | 9,715 | 47K rec. | 1 in 34K | 14K | Thu | 159 |
| LA Laos | #158 | 5,026 | 10 rec. | — | — | Thu | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,444 | 2.6K rec. | — | listed | Thu | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,540 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Thu | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 841△ | 280 rec. | 1 in 12K | 841 | — | 16 |
| TH Thailand | — | 606 | 482 rec. | — | #543,232 | 'ฐ | 63 |
| SG Singapore | #986 | 473 | 1K rec. | — | — | Thu | 23 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 464 | 902 rec. | — | — | Thu | 10 |
| PE Peru | — | 456 | 486 rec. | — | — | Thu | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 267△ | 28 rec. | 1 in 21K | 855 | — | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | 240 | 308 rec. | — | — | Thu | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese82K99%
- Japanese2201%
- English1031%
- German421%
- Spanish171%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 81,824 | 99% |
| Japanese | 220 | 1% |
| English | 103 | 1% |
| German | 42 | 1% |
| Spanish | 17 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Nam Thưb. 1987VNVietnamese actress
- Vũ Thị Anh Thưb. 2001VNVietnamese badminton player
- Fan Junot in their usual namePrime minister of the State of Qin.
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #7,971 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2022 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2018 | 1 | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Thư?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Thư (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Thư have the most bearers?
- Thư is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thu.
- How common is Thư compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thư is the 9th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Thư a male or female name?
- Thư is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Thư mean?
- Recorded meaning: letter
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thư” — the 9th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.