Tử
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese reading of 子
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tử is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 312(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 51K
- CNChina≈1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 312 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tu in VN Vietnam, US United States, ID Indonesia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sino-Vietnamese reading of 子
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tử counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #37 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 312 | listed | Tu | 188 |
| CN China | — | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Tu | 28 |
| US United States | — | 6,480 | 1 in 51K | 11K | Tu | 167 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Tu | 65 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Tu | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 311 | 1 in 33K | 311 | Tu | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Tu | 19 |
| IS Iceland | — | 8 | 1 in 44K | 8 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tử mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 子 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tử a male or female name?
- Tử is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tử have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 316 thousand people named Tử in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tu.
- How common is the name Tử?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,480 people named Tử in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Tử compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Tử is the 37th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%E1%BB%ADThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tử” — the 37th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.