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Tui

Boys' name

Diminutive of Artur or Arthur

Tui has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2019, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Tui, 2024

1 in 669,000

Tui 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tui: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Artur or Arthur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tui means

Tui is a diminutive of Artur or Arthur.

Origin, language, and formation

Tui is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Artur and Arthur.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Tui is pronounced /ˈtuj/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Tui between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2019; its best national rank was #12,018 in 2019.

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 Tui?

Tui had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tui 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tui. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tuis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tui was born before 2022 — so the typical Tui is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Tui 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2019 (6)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,018
2019

Tui around the world

Where Tui 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.

  • South Australia
    1980–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tui by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,018
2019
Peak year
2019
6 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Tui

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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