Boy

Tou

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
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under 5 boys
2015
#11,956
rank
1950
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not ranked

Tou: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,093 in 1983.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,093 in 1983. No US babies were recorded with the name Tou in 2025.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,093 in 1983.

Babies in 2025
0
Since 1880
1,254
Years on record
33

Babies named Tou, every year since 1880

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Boys

Tou: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,093 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 82 (1990).

About the name Tou

Fewer than five US boys were named Tou in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,093, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 1990. For comparison, it was #11,956 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Tou in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 33 babies. In all, 1,254 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 578 babies named Tou.

In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US boys named Tou.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Toya (3,992 babies since 1880) and Thuy (1,093 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thu, Tu and Tho are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Thu (837), Tu (427), Tho (52), Tui (16), Tue (11).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Tou in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2015——6#11,956
2014——5#13,879
2011——5#14,162
2010——7#10,657
2009——5#14,313
2007——6#12,220
2006——5#13,839
2005——15#5,550
2004——13#6,107
2003——8#8,568
2002——13#5,696
2001——21#3,958
2000——24#3,529
1999——24#3,364
1998——35#2,502
1997——34#2,440
1996——58#1,669
1995——53#1,703
1994——68#1,433
1993——81#1,265
1992——66#1,415
1991——77#1,280
1990——82#1,215
1989——75#1,256
1988——54#1,448
1987——54#1,378
1986——48#1,456
1985——66#1,157
1984——53#1,279
1983——67#1,093
1982——43#1,485
1981——50#1,332
1980——33#1,762

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).