Theu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰɛw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Theu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pull leaves off branches.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 67K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.4M
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
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pull leaves off branches
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Theu 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 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 3,182 | 1 in 67K | 3.2K | Theu | 28 |
| US United States | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Theu | 31 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Theu | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Theu | 9 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Theu | 1 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Theu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zom, housefly (Musca domestica)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Nyanja, a surname from Tumbuka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In och, pull leaves off branches
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roh Tae-woob. 1932KRnot in their usual namePresident of South Korea from 1988 to 1993
- Theu Boermansb. 1950NLDutch actor (born 1950)
- Kim Tae-woob. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, born 1971
- Kim Tae-woob. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Kim Tae-woob. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Jung Tae-ub. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Lee Tae-woob. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Kim Tae-woob. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.1K | #3,730 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 948 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 93 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 82 | #39,746 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #3,730 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 28 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #22,158 |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Theu mean, and where does it come from?
- pull leaves off branches Recorded by Wiktionary and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- How do you pronounce Theu?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰɛw/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Theu a male or female name?
- Theu 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 Theu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Theu in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Theu?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,182 people named Theu in 2022, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Theu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theuThe 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, “Theu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.