Phu
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Phu has been given to 283 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1987, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Phu, 2022
1 in 564,000
Phu 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Phu?
Phu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Phu sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Phus were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Phu was born before 1991 — so the typical Phu is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 43.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 283
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (124).
Is Phu 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (19)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.3% average annual change
Where Phu is used
Across 1910–2025, Phu was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 335,244 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Phu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Phu around the world
Where Phu 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.
- France1989–1989#3,099in 1989
- Canada1994–1998#1,731in 1998
- South Australia1981–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Phu by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Phu
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Phu
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.