Thu
The name carries the sense of "autumn". In Poland it's a rare find: fewer than a hundred people go by it, and nearly all of them are women.
Thu Pronunciation
What Thu means
Where Thu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Thu comes from Vietnamese, where thu is the word for autumn. In mùa thu, the season of autumn, the same syllable does its everyday work. So a girl named Thu carries an ordinary noun that names the third season, the one after summer heat and before the cold.
Autumn in Vietnam is not the red-leaf spectacle of colder countries. It is milder weather, clearer skies, the lull between the rains. A child given this name is tied to that particular calm.
In Poland the name arrives with Vietnamese families, one of the largest Asian communities in the country. A teacher reading a class register in Warsaw may meet a Thu between a Zofia and a Tomasz. The spelling stays short, four letters, easy to write on a form at the urząd, even if the tone marks that shape its Vietnamese sound drop away in Polish print.
The Polish word for the season is jesień, and that is what Thu means: autumn. No saint stands behind it, no name-day marks it. It holds its meaning plainly, one small word for one clear season.
How many people are named Thu
1 in 271612 women in Poland is named Thu. 88 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3762 among female names.
Thu as a middle name
Thu is a first name for 88 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1119th, between Samuela (39) and Violet (39).
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#1117 Pearl39
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#1118 Samuela39
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#1119 Thu39
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#1120 Violet39
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#1121 Yolanda39