Thêu

given name · Latin script

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

Thêu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: spade.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 67K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,182 people, 2022

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Theu in US United States, MY Malaysia.

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)

spade

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thêu 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 Thêu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3,1821 in 67K3.2K——
NL Netherlands71 in 2.5M7—2
US United States———Theu6
MY Malaysia———Theu3
VN Vietnam——listed—1

3,182 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the vn-kaggle-given register. 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)

Thêu is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Theu, Théu, Theü, Thêü, Thệu

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Theu

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Theu, Theù, Thëū

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Theu

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Thễu, Theu

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt

    Also written Theu

7 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)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Thêu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VN VietnamVietnamese given names (Kaggle)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Thêu mean, and where does it come from?
spade Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Thêu a male or female name?
Thêu 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 Thêu have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Thêu, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Thêu most common?
Thêu is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 67 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Thêu?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,182 people named Thêu in 2022, about 1 in 67 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, “Thêu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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