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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shu

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#13,606

up +332 places

2025 births

5

unchanged births

All-time births

77

6% of them in 2025

More common than

58%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1992
8 births
Best rank
#6,605
in 1992
First recorded
1992
#6,605 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2008
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
14 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19928#6,605Peak
  2. 20117#10,603
  3. 19946#8,653
  4. 20086#12,328
  5. 19965#10,321

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #6,605 in 1992 · peak births 8 in 1992

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 81% boys■ 19% girls

77 boys · 18 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shu has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.