How rare is the name Thuy?

17,253 people in the United States have the first name Thuy, about 1 in 17,506. It ranks #1,749 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

THUY

#1,749

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
17,253
About
1 in 17,506
This common or more
76.8%
Who bears it

Of the 17,253 people named Thuy, 98.3% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander. 94% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Thuy peaked in 1982, when 99 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19742015
Peak year
1982
Births that year
99
In 2015
5 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 1,093 babies have been given the name since 1974. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Thuy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #2,887. The largest share of babies named Thuy, 73.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#6,818137
1980s#2,887645
1990s#7,216235
2000s#19,92171
2010s#47,4065
Generation X 1965–8016.7%
Millennials 1981–9673.3%
Generation Z 1997–129.6%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Thuy

#1,747 Anya · 17,277#1,748 Jax · 17,270#1,750 Matteo · 17,236#1,751 Marquis · 17,235

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Thuy, most common first.

#2,305 Thu · 11,151#7,247 Thy · 2,123#23,505 Thay · 416#43,210 Thua · 164

Also a last name

As a last name, Thuy ranks #99,304 of 156,621, with 195 people. See Thuy as a last name

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