Thuy
A Vietnamese name meaning "graceful, hanging down". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than a hundred people carry it, mostly women with a handful of men, and no newborns were given it last year.
Thuy Pronunciation
What Thuy means
Where Thuy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Thúy arrives in Poland from Vietnamese. On official records the origin sits under "other," a plain label for a name born far from Slavic roots. The Vietnamese sense reads as graceful, hanging down, two ideas that meet in the image of a branch that bends without breaking.
Vietnamese is a tonal language. The mark above the u in Thúy is not decoration. Change it and you change the word, so the spelling on a Polish class register holds information a Polish ear can miss. A teacher reading the name at roll call has to trust the diacritic.
For the people who carry it, the name works in two places at once. It keeps its Vietnamese meaning while sitting on a form at the urząd beside Katarzyna and Aleksandra. No Polish diminutive has grown around it. There is no name-day. What stays constant is the small mark and the meaning it guards: graceful, hanging down.
How many people are named Thuy
1 in 296629 women in Poland is named Thuy. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3649 among female names.
Thuy as a middle name
Thuy is a first name for 92 women in Poland and a middle name for another 40, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1098th, between Soraya (40) and Adelaida (39).
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#1096 Rebeca40
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#1097 Soraya40
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#1098 Thuy40
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#1099 Adelaida39
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#1100 Alexa39