Chu
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chu has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1986. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Chu, 1990
1 in 564,000
Chu over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chu?
Chu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 564,000
- 7 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 293,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,130 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chu sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,130 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chus were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chu was born before 1990 — so the typical Chu is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 13
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Chu 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (7)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Chu around the world
Where Chu 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.
- France1983–1983#2,700in 1983
- South Australia1987–1987#464in 1987
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chu by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chu
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chu
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.