Pü
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 7K
- USUnited States1 in 256K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pu in US United States, GT Guatemala, CN China and 4 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 Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).
Sources 2
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pü 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Pu | 51 |
| IN India | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 8 | Pu | 33 |
| GT Guatemala | #165 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Pu | 23 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Pu | 64 |
| US United States | — | 1,299 | 1 in 256K | 1.8K | Pu | 218 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Pu | 27 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Pu | 26 |
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; 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)
Pü 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 vep, hazel grouse, Bonasa bonasia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chm-pro, tooth
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pü mean, and where does it come from?
- From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Pü have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 199 thousand people named Pü in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pu.
- How common is the name Pü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,299 people named Pü in 2010, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
- How common is Pü compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Pü is the 165th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pü?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%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, “Pü” — the 165th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.