Given name & surname
Thi
“one who inspires poetry”
Thi is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who inspires poetry.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who inspires poetry.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 471
- 63 boys · 408 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,169 as a first name in 2020; 1,249 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thi’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Thi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Thi, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Thy
“a poet” · “one who is untamed”
>99% girls
Thu
“born in autumn” · “born during the autumn”
>99% girls
Thuy
“one who is gentle and pure Thuye, Thuyy: Thuyye” · “one who is kind”
2% boys · 98% girls
Trinh
“one who is pure; virginal”
>99% girls
Thao
“one who is respectful of her parents” · “one who is courteous”
16% boys · 84% girls
Thuong
“one who is loved tenderly” · “one who loves tenderly”
16% boys · 84% girls
Ly
“a reasonable man”
30% boys · 70% girls
Tuyet
“snow-white woman”
>99% girls