Vu

Last seen for boys in 2018 at #10,760

Peak · boys
1982 · 60 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
770
since 1975

Vu over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Vu has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201975peak #1,193, 1982boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
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2018#10,7606
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2014#8,1309
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2012#9,7097
2011#12,2875
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2009#12,4915
2008#12,5535
2007#10,9216
2006#7,9989
2005#11,4725
2004#11,3565
2003#8,6437
2002#7,0559
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2000#4,57316
1999#7,8747
1998#7,5607
1997#5,28811
1996#4,39614
1995#4,79112
1994#4,09415
1993#2,94323
1992#3,10521
1991#1,98338
1990#2,12834
1989#2,69023
1988#1,51449
1987#1,65541
1986#1,58841
1985#1,56941
1984#1,28052
1983#1,39945
1982#1,19360
1981#1,50041
1980#1,85230
1979#2,04825
1978#2,47318
1977#3,20312
1976#4,9356
1975#3,42810
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Vu! It came in at #3,428, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Vu is popular in 1975

No state had 5 or more boys named Vu in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Vu
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2018
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 1982 at #1,193 (60 births)
  • Births halved by 1989, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 30,241
  • Highest: 1 in 30,241 boys born in 1982 were named Vu (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 302,693 boys born in 2018 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 54.9% of all boys named Vu (423) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s71#2,048 (1979)#3,217
1980s423#1,193 (1982)#1,624
1990s182#1,983 (1991)#4,416
2000s67#4,573 (2000)#9,674
2010s27#8,130 (2014)#10,222

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Vu in 1975

boys
#3,428
10 births · 1 in 156,136 boys

Top boys' names in 1975

  1. #1Michael68,418
  2. #2Jason52,159
  3. #3Christopher46,575
  4. #4James39,569
  5. #5David39,156
  6. #6Robert35,306
  7. #7John35,079
  8. #8Brian30,578
  9. #9Matthew28,527
  10. #10William25,561
  11. #3,428Vu10
More about 1975

boys

1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 156,136 of them was named Vu, which outranked 45.9% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vu
  1. #3,246Wilberto11
  2. #3,246Zakary11
  3. #3,246Zoltan11
  4. #3,428Vu10
  5. #3,428Addam10
  6. #3,428Adem10
  7. #3,428Aj10
  8. #3,659Abelino9
  9. #3,659Acie9
  10. #3,659Agustine9

Tied with 230 names at #3,428; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1974
Risers
  1. ↑ 722Benjiman#1,692 → #970
  2. ↑ 702Marques#1,520 → #818
  3. ↑ 645Glendon#1,409 → #764
  4. ↑ 502Benji#1,124 → #622
  5. ↑ 471Regan#1,409 → #938
Fallers
  1. ↓ 905Toma#882 → #1,787
  2. ↓ 830Vashon#923 → #1,753
  3. ↓ 352Bruno#993 → #1,345
  4. ↓ 327Hollis#953 → #1,280
  5. ↓ 303Domenico#977 → #1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1975 →