Blu
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Blu is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 494K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 701K
- SESweden1 in 785K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 494K (inferred from the name graph)
674 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Blu, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Blu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 674 | 1 in 494K | 415 | Blu | 137 |
| IT Italy | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 26 | — | 18 |
| DE Germany | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Blu | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 3 | Blu | 38 |
| FR France | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 25 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 701K | 4 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 20 | — | 1 |
674 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Blu Mankumab. 1948USCanadian actor
- David Blub. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Nuris Blub. 1988ARActress
- Natasha Blub. 1994USAmerican pornographic actress
- Blu Huntb. 1995USAmerican actress
- Ludovico Vibertib. 2002ITnot in their usual nameItalian swimmer
- Brian Bluactor
- Jonny BluUSAmerican musician
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 278 | #74,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 24 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Blu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 674 people named Blu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blu.
- Where is Blu most common?
- Blu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 494 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Blu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 674 people named Blu in 2020, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Blu?
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/bluThe 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, “Blu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.