girls:
114 births since 1978
#5602 (2nd percentile)
boys:
313 births since 1978
#4273 (7th percentile)
overall:
427 births since 1978
#7312 (5th percentile)
The name Tu is the #7,312 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 427 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,273 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 313 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,602 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1978.
Tu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 . Birth data for Tu is available in 31 out of the 41 years between 1978 and 2018 (28 years for boys and 14 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 Tu has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Tu were boys. Interestingly, until around 1979, the name was more popular for girls (53.3% girls from 1978 to 1978), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (74.3% boys from 1979 to 2018).
For boys, Tu reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #693) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
For girls, Tu reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #816) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tu".
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