Tú
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese for 'elegant/beautiful'; personal name of Emperor Quang Võ of Eastern Han, leading to the tabooed title change
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tu˨˦/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tú 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 for 'elegant/beautiful'; personal name of Emperor Quang Võ of Eastern Han, leading to the tabooed title change.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tú 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tú is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Sino-Vietnamese reading of 秀
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: 'tú' = đẹp, tinh tú; nhũ danh của Quang Võ, được dùng làm tên chánh.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: tú, tốt đẹp/ưu tú; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
Đ Tứ B là bốn.
as a nameMẹo giải nghĩa từ Hán Việt và chữa lỗi chính tả
In gmq-ogt, neuter nominative/accusative of tweir (“two”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Emperor Guangwu of Hanb. 5CNnot in their usual nameemperor and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (5 BC - AD 57) (r. AD 25 - AD 57)
- Zhang Xiub. 200CNnot in their usual nameChinese general and warlord (died 207)
- Zhu Xiub. 1884CNnot in their usual nameMa Qi secretary
- Wenxiub. 1909CNnot in their usual nameQing Dynasty imperial consort (1909–1953)
- Liu Xiunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 220854
- Feng Xiunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 304206
- Zha Xiunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 320174
- Zhu Xiunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 214264
- Zhang Xiunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 309701
- Cai Xiunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 320513
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tú mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese for 'elegant/beautiful'; personal name of Emperor Quang Võ of Eastern Han, leading to the tabooed title change. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Tú?
- A machine transcription gives /tu˨˦/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Tú a male or female name?
- Tú 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 Tú have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 316 thousand people named Tú in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tu.
- How common is the name Tú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,480 people named Tú in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Tú compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Tú is the 37th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tú?
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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%C3%BAThe 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, “Tú” — the 37th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.