girls:
18 births since 1978
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
67 births since 1992
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
85 births since 1978
#7654 (1st percentile)
The name Shu is the #7,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1992. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1978.
Shu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Shu is available in 15 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (12 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shu has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Shu were boys. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1978 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (91.8% boys from 1992 to 2023).
For boys, Shu reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #767) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Shu ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 71.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shu reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #754) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shu".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shu is pronounced as shue, which has 1 syllables.
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