Thu

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Thu: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Thu: Recorded since 1956, it reached #313 in 1977, and it was last ranked in 2007.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#313highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2007

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#3848
2004	#3725
2005	#2970
2006	#4157
2007	#4294

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 25 of the 37 years from 1956 to 1992.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1956–2007 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1956
First recorded at #423 among girls in Norway in 1956 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1956–1992
Highest recorded position: #313 among girls in Norway, in 1977 (recorded 1956–1992).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2007
Most recently recorded at #4294 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007.
England and Wales · Girls

Thu appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1956, and has registered 159 births with the name.

Thu across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Thu's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#423 (1956)	#313 (1977)	#682 (1992)	25 of 37	159 (1956–1992)	14 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#2970 (2005)	#4294 (2007)	6 of 12	24 (1996–2007)	6 (2005)

Thu by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Thu in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	11	2 of 10	6
1960s	42	7 of 10	6
1970sbusiest	59	8 of 10	7
1980s	36	6 of 10	6
1990s	11	2 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Thu appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1956 to 2007. Highest recorded position: #313 in Norway in 1977.

Thu's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#682	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#540	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#591	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#647	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#507	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#671	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#419	9	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#601	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#600	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#313	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#444	8	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#627	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#405	9	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#495	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#608	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#423	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#586	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#381	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#407	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#454	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#555	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#448	6	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#483	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#399	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#423	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1956 and 2007, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #313, first reached in 1977.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in Norway in 1977.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 40 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Thorstein · #235, 52y
Thorvald · #240, 48y
Thuy · #266, 35y
Tia · #53, 31y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eavan · #313, 32y
Nick · #313, 30y
Oluwaseun · #313, 26y
Billie-Jo · #314, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Abraham · #313, 59y
Karim · #314, 59y
Torkil · #314, 48y
Zoran · #312, 39y

Thu was ranked #313 in Norway · Girls in 1977. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Thu and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Thu without appearing here.

Thu moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4157 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #4294 and #5201.

Moved ahead of Thu

Amy Compare
In 1991 they stood at #540 and #549 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #682 and #304.
Louise Compare
In 1978 they stood at #313 and #352 in Norway · Girls; by 1979 that had become #600 and #267.
Stephanie Compare
In 1981 they stood at #419 and #458 in Norway · Girls; by 1982 that had become #671 and #355.
Aurora Compare
In 1987 they stood at #507 and #628 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #647 and #348.

Moved the opposite way to Thu

Anette Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 while Anette went from #198 to #31.
Anna Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 while Anna went from #72 to #19.
Camilla Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 while Camilla went from #391 to #3.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 while Cecilie went from #252 to #41.

Moved the same way as Thu

Anita Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 and Anita from #36 to #106.
Ann Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 and Ann from #27 to #86.
Anne Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 and Anne from #1 to #17.
Annie Compare
Between 1956 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Thu went from #423 to #682 and Annie from #213 to #376.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1956 to 2007. Highest recorded position: #313 in Norway in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Thu

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Thu across 2 official records

Thu by decade in Norway · Girls

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Thu across 2 official records

Thu by decade in Norway · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Thu moved ahead of

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