Shu — #12890 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shu

The Social Security Administration has registered 72 babies named Shu between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shu currently holds the #12890 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Shu is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 18 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shu performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 24 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shu shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shu in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shu in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 72 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.