Thu
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of Thursday.
- 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 '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●
Abbreviation of Thursday.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 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●
- Vietnamese1.1M79%
- English98K7%
- 43K3%
- Spanish36K3%
- Burmese19K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 1,053,446 | 79% |
| English | 98,030 | 7% |
| 43,092 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 35,843 | 3% |
| Burmese | 18,875 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Thu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; tên của tiện nội trong ví dụ ghép Huy + Thu.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Autumn
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In enm, alternative form of þou (“thou”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, second-person singular informal pronoun; thou, you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, singular imperative of thun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 18 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 25 |
| 1979 | 22 |
| 1980 | 37 |
| 1981 | 47 |
| 1982 | 50 |
| 1983 | 55 |
| 1984 | 52 |
| 1985 | 34 |
| 1986 | 32 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 21 |
| 1989 | 30 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 28 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 27 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1975–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Thu Tranb. 1901USAmerican actress
- Lê Văn Thụb. 1908VNVietnamese judge
- Ngô Viết Thụb. 1927VNVietnamese architect (1927-2000)
- Thu Kamkasomphoub. 1968FRFrench para table tennis player
- Nguyễn Thu Thủyb. 1971VNVietnamese artist
- Thu Phươngb. 1972VNVietnamese singer (born 1972)
- Lê Thị Thu Hằngb. 1972VNVietnamese diplomat
- Mai Thu Huyềnb. 1979VNVietnamese actress, model, businesswoman, television presenter and filmmaker
- Thu Trangb. 1984VNVietnamese actress and film producer
- Suni Hạ Linhb. 1990VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
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 38 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 329 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Thu?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Thu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Thu have the most bearers?
- Thu is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thu.
- How common is Thu compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thu is the 9th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Thu a male or female name?
- Thu 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 Thu mean?
- Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of Thursday.
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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, “Thu” — the 9th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.