Thant
Meaning
pure, clean (သန့်); the name of U Thant, UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971. The U was never part of his name: U, Daw, Ko and Ma are honorifics (roughly Mr., Ms., elder brother, young woman), so in the US the bare given name stands alone
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Thant has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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