Thổ

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Earth, one of the Wu Xing

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Thổ is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 105K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 196K
  • FIFinland1 in 223K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,176 people, 2020

Record sources
106 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tho in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

Earth, one of the Wu Xing

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Thổ 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.

Where Thổ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,1761 in 105K2.1KTho106
SE Sweden521 in 196K52—6
BR Brazil471 in 4.5M47—1
FI Finland251 in 223K61—2
NL Netherlands141 in 1.2M8Tho10
DK Denmark81 in 734K8—1
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

3,176 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Thổ is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tho, Thoe, Thö, Thọ, Thơ

  • Finnish name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Tho, Thọ, Thơ, Thö, Thờ

  • Russian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тхо, Tho, Thọ, Thơ, Thỏ

  • French given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Tho, Tho', Thơ, Thọ, Thô

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Thổ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Thổ mean, and where does it come from?
Earth, one of the Wu Xing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Thổ a male or female name?
Thổ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Thổ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Thổ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tho.
Where is Thổ most common?
Thổ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 105 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Thổ?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,176 people named Thổ in 2020, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.

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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, “Thổ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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