Vü
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Past participle of voir. Inherited from Old French veü, from earlier vedüt. Compare Italian veduto, Romanian văzut.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 94(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.6K
- USUnited States1 in 9.2K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #597 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vu in VN Vietnam, US United States, AU Australia and 4 more and Vũ in MO Macao.
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)
Past participle of voir. Inherited from Old French veü, from earlier vedüt. Compare Italian veduto, Romanian văzut.
Sources 2
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vü 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 | #6 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | 4 | Vu | 259 |
| CN China | — | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Vu | 14 |
| US United States | — | 36,179 | 1 in 9.2K | 44K | Vu | 443 |
| AO Angola | #62 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Vu | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Vu | 42 |
| AU Australia | #454 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 4 | Vu | 220 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,456 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.5K | Vu | 34 |
| MO Macao | #236 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 896 | — | Vũ | 7 |
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: This page is a comprehensive guide to Vietnamese last names published by Vietnam Teaching Jobs, offering insights into t; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Vü 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 vo, between
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bar, much
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 Vü mean, and where does it come from?
- Past participle of voir. Inherited from Old French veü, from earlier vedüt. Compare Italian veduto, Romanian văzut. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Vü have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Vü in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vu.
- How common is the name Vü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 36,179 people named Vü in 2010, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Vü compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Vü is the 6th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Vü” — the 6th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.