Nū
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nū is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: wife and children.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 138K
- THThailand≈1 in 33Kas นิอร
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 Nū itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nui in VN Vietnam, ID Indonesia, นิอร in TH Thailand, Nue in US United States and Nii in LA Laos.
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)
wife and children
Sources 3
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nū 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #861 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Nui | 113 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Nui | 66 |
| US United States | — | 2,417 | 1 in 138K | 2.2K | Nue | 161 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | #287,413 | นิอร | 91 |
| DK Denmark | — | 870as Nor | 1 in 6.7K | 791 | — | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 602as Nor | 1 in 17K | 602 | — | 6 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Nii | 4 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Nū is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, to cough; to roar, as wind; grunting, as of pigs; cooing, as of doves; patter, as of rain; groaning, deep sighing, moaning
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kix, okay(used to give an affirmative response.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ヌー
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 莻
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, grunt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsg, Noah
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nū mean, and where does it come from?
- wife and children Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 1 other source.
- In which country does Nū have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Nū in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nui.
- How common is the name Nū?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,417 people named Nū in 2020, about 1 in 138 thousand residents.
- How common is Nū compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Nū is the 861st most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nū?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C5%ABThe 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, “Nū” — the 861st most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.