Ñó
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ñó is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).
- USUnited States1 in 247K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 164as 노
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 11K
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 Ñó 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.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
315,372 named 노, 2015
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 노 in KR South Korea, FR France, HK Hong Kong and 1 more, No in US United States, BE Belgium, Nô in DZ Algeria and No- in IN India.
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 a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).
Sources 5
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ñó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #27 | 315,372as 노 | 1 in 164 | 323K | 노 | 102 |
| IN India | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 191K | listed | No- | 58 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nô | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 9 | 노 | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | 노 | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,349 | 1 in 247K | 9.6K | No | 303 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | No | 20 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | 노 | 13 |
315,372 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñó mean, and where does it come from?
- From a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Is Ñó a male or female name?
- Ñó is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ñó have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 315 thousand people named 노, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ñó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,349 people named Ñó in 2010, about 1 in 247 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñó compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ñó is the 27th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1%C3%B3The 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, “Ñó” — the 27th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.