Tou
Tou was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 1,254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Tou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 31 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tou?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,950, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1990, the peak
Tou peaked in 1990, when 82 boys were given it, #1,210 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,950 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,873 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #14,154 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,650 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,307 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,214 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,832 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,544 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,101 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,561 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 13 | #5,689 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,952 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,523 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,360 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,499 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,437 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 58 | #1,666 | 30.6 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,698 | 27.8 |
| 1994 | 68 | #1,429 | 35.2 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,260 | 41.3 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,410 | 33.0 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,274 | 38.1 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,210 | 39.9 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,251 | 37.5 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,443 | 28.2 |
| 1987 | 54 | #1,376 | 28.9 |
| 1986 | 48 | #1,455 | 26.1 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,156 | 35.7 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,278 | 29.4 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,093 | 37.4 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,484 | 23.7 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,332 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,762 | 18.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tou has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tou, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,254 Americans ever recorded as Tou. The median Tou alive today is 35 years old; half are between 31 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,131 people named Tou (60 women and girls, 2,071 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 946 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Tou born?
The states with the most babies named Tou are California, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 494 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Minnesota | 287 | not ranked | 12.0× |
| Wisconsin | 227 | not ranked | 9.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Rhode Island | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Tou is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tou is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1980 it was given 12.0 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 boys’ 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 Tou 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,710 babies since 1880, Tou is the second most given (34% 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.
More about Tou and names like it
- Compare Tou and ToyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTou peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tou since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Tou.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tou alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.