boys:
1.3k births since 1980
#3356 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1980
#6487 (16th percentile)
The name Tou is the #6,487 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,254 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 16.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,356 (26.8% percentile) for all time with 1,254 births since 1980.
Tou first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for boys in 1980). Birth data for Tou is available in 33 out of the 36 years between 1980 and 2015. 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.
For boys, Tou reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #692) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 39 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tou".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tou is pronounced as tue, which has 1 syllables.
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