Phû

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 82K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 87K
  • ISIceland1 in 175K

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)

3,819 people, 2020

Record sources
141 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Phu in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Phû 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 Phû is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,8191 in 87K3.4KPhu23
SE Sweden1251 in 82K125—1
NL Netherlands311 in 557K31——
DK Denmark261 in 226K23——
FI Finland231 in 242K109——
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

3,819 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

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

  • Burmese given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

    Also written Phu, Pĥű, Pĥû, Pĥu, Phŭ

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Phû 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 Phû have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Phû, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phu.
Where is Phû most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Phû is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 82 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Phû?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,819 people named Phû in 2020, about 1 in 87 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, “Phû”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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