Bû

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bû is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 147K
  • USUnited States1 in 336K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

989 people, 2010

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Vietnamese

即 丘 姓 , 汉 以 后 为 避 孔 子 名 讳 ,庙堂 上 用 字 ， 见 《姓氏 考 略 》(62) 。 什 shi { 3£3z ] Shi, Shyr, Shr, Shih.

Sources 5

  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
  • YorùbáName Dictionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bû counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bû is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9891 in 336K1.5K—26
NO Norway5541 in 9.9K554——
BR Brazil2851 in 743K285——
ES Spain1081 in 463K108—2
FI Finland381 in 147K38——
SE Sweden231 in 444K23—1
DK Denmark131 in 451K13——

989 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bû is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, China, India

    Also written Bo, Vo, বু, Võ, বৃ

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bû is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bbj, to you (indirect object pronoun)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kr, blood

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Wu Ningkun, b. 1920Wu Yili, b. 1931Wu Lanying, b. 1955Emily Wu, b. 1958Wu Gang, b. 1960Eric Moo, b. 1963Wu Dan, b. 1968Moo Yan Yee, b. 1988Wu Jian-He, b. 1993Wu Hsiao-Lin, b. 1995
  • Wu Ningkunb. 1920CNnot in their usual nameChinese academic
  • Wu Yilib. 1931CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Singaporean pianist
  • Wu Lanyingb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameOlympic sport shooter
  • Emily Wub. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese-born American writer
  • Wu Gangb. 1960CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor (1960- )
  • Eric Moob. 1963MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian singer
  • Wu Danb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameOlympic medalist in volleyball
  • Moo Yan Yeeb. 1988MYnot in their usual nameactress
  • Wu Jian-Heb. 1993TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor
  • Wu Hsiao-Linb. 1995TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese badminton player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bû under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bû have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 989 people named Bû, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bû most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bû is densest in Norway — about 1 in 9.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bû?
In the United States, the national register counted 989 people named Bû in 2010, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bû”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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