Entry № 10580 · Vietnamese origin

Thuy Thuy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TWEE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Vietnamese
Meaning
"Gentle, water"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "gentle, water".

Thủy is the Vietnamese word for "water" — derived from the Chinese 水 (shuǐ).

Thuy is widely used in Vietnam.

Water, gentle. The Vietnamese flow.

The name in its native script.

Thủy
Transliteration
Thủy
Pronunciation
/ twiː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Thuy stands.

Thuy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Thuys before her.

Real people

In fiction
Thuy
Common in Vietnamese fiction.

Names connected to Thuy.

The number behind Thuy.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Thuy reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.