Thị Thủy
Only 42 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it in years: most Poles have never met one. At root it means simply "water".
Thị Thủy Pronunciation
What Thị Thủy means
Where Thị Thủy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thị Thủy comes from Vietnam, and it means water. The second element, Thủy, descends from the Sino-Vietnamese 水, the character read shuǐ in Mandarin and sui in Japanese. Thị is the traditional female middle name, given for generations to mark a girl before her personal name. Read together, the parts say roughly "she, water."
Thủy runs through Vietnamese myth. In the legend of Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh, the water spirit Thủy Tinh loses the mountain god's contest for a bride, so each year he floods the land in revenge. The same Thủy sits in the girl's name, though here it points to the element alone.
On a Polish class register, Thị Thủy stands apart from the Zuzannas and Hannas. A teacher might pause over the diacritics. The name asks little else. It says water.
How many people are named Thị Thủy
1 in 536758 women in Poland is named Thị Thủy. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5974 among female names.