Tou — boys' name

What the Data Says About Tou

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,254 babies named Tou between 1980 and 2015, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tou currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 82 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tou performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 578 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tou shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 494 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Tou in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tou 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 1,254 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.