Jü
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Jü is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 320(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 18Kfew records
- BRBrazil≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jü itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 319 (inferred from the name graph)
≈83,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jü in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jue in US United States, MY Malaysia, GH Ghana and 2 more.
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)From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jü is found
(measured from records)Jü 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 319 | 10 | — | 2 |
| IN India | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 225K | 2 | Jue | 32 |
| BR Brazil | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 199 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 2,502 | 1 in 133K | 2.8K | Jue | 296 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Jue | 47 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Jue | 8 |
| AT Austria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Jü | 23 |
| SG Singapore | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Jue | 45 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Jü is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In frr, she (third-person singular feminine personal pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bsh, daughter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, until
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In syd-pro, knot
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)- Guan Yub. 162CNnot in their usual nameChinese general serving warlord Liu Bei (160-220)
- Ruan Lingyub. 1910CNnot in their usual nameChinese silent film actress
- Jimmy Wang Yub. 1943CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Taiwanese actor and filmmaker (1943-2022)
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jü mean, and where does it come from?
- From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Jü a male or female name?
- Jü is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jü?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Jü in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Brazil, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,502 people named Jü in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jü?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%BCThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Jü” — ranked 24th in North Korea (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.