Thuy
Thuy was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,093 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Thuy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thuy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thuy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,871, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
99 babies in 1982, the peak
Thuy peaked in 1982, when 99 babies were given it (92 girls, #1,355 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,871 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,224 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,509 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,278 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,537 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,625 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,180 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,388 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,127 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,809 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 10 | #9,216 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,741 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,567 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,661 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 27 | #4,002 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,373 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,760 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,729 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,068 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,758 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,689 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,268 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,190 | 28.0 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,077 | 30.2 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,431 | 48.7 |
| 1983 | 93 | #1,310 | 55.7 |
| 1982 | 92 | #1,355 | 54.3 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,422 | 52.2 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,243 | 27.1 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,791 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,428 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,604 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,948 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,141 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,668 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Thuy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,093 Americans recorded as Thuy, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Thuy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thuy, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,093 Americans ever recorded as Thuy. The median Thuy alive today is 41 years old; half are between 35 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 17,253 people named Thuy (16,216 women and girls, 1,037 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,066 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 173 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 775 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 104 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Thuy born?
The states with the most babies named Thuy are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 267 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 94 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Kansas | 13 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Thuy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Thuy is most over-represented in California: since 1974 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Thuy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,930 babies since 1880, Thuy is the most given (57% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Thuy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Thuy and names like it
- Compare Thuy and ThuBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sThuy peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thuy since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Thuy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Thuy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.