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Batu

#12,274 in 2025Boys' name

Strong, firm

Batu has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #12,274 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Batu, 2025

1 in 663,000

Batu over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Batu: meaning, origin, and history

Strong, firm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Batu means

Batu means “strong, firm”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Batu is used in Mongolian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpätʰ/ for Batu.

Origin, language, and formation

Batu is used in English, Atayal and Turkish.

Batu comes through Mongolian Бат.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Batu is pronounced /ˈbɑːtuː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 116 boys were recorded with the name Batu between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,747 in 2018.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,114 in 2015 to #12,274 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Batu?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,274
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Batu sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Batu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Batus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Batu was born before 2014 — so the typical Batu is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
116
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Batu rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,246
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,160
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2018 (12)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,747
2018

Spellings of Batu

Batu is not the most common spelling — Beau is, with 35.1% against Batu's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Batu is used

Across 1910–2025, Batu was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Batu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Batu around the world

Where Batu ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Batu by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,274
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,747
2018
Peak year
2018
12 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
116
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Batu

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Batu

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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