Entry № 8370 · Other origin

Putu Putu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POO-too /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"First-born (Balinese + Putu Wijaya Indonesian writer)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Balinese)

A name that means "first-born (balinese + putu wijaya indonesian writer)".

Putu is from the Balinese Putu — first-born child. Putu is one of the Balinese unisex names — central to traditional Balinese Hindu Indigenous heritage. The Balinese birth-order naming heritage is one of the caste-neutral Indigenous naming systems in the world.

First-born (Balinese + Putu Wijaya Indonesian writer).

The name in its native script.

Putu
Transliteration
Putu
Pronunciation
/ ˈpuː.tuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Putu stands.

Putu 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.

Putus before her.

Real people
Putu Wijaya
Indonesian Balinese novelist + Telegram 1973 + Teater Mandiri.
born 1944
In fiction
Putu
Balinese first-born.

Names connected to Putu.

The number behind Putu.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Putu reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.