Òű
surname · Latin script
Òű is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,196 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin ōvum (“egg”).
- USUnited States1 in 79K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 117K
- FIFinland1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
4,196 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ou in US United States, HK Hong Kong, CH Switzerland.
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)Inherited from Latin ōvum (“egg”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Òű is found
(measured from records)Òű 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 | — | 4,196 | 1 in 79K | 5.8K | Ou | 184 |
| ES Spain | — | 230 | 1 in 217K | 230 | — | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 226 | 1 in 937K | 226 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 110 | 1 in 413K | 110 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 49 | 1 in 172K | 49 | Ou | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 39 | 1 in 143K | 39 | — | 2 |
| HK Hong Kong | #988 | — | — | — | Ou | 26 |
4,196 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Òű mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Òű?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Òű, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ou. After it come Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Òű most common?
- Òű is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Òű?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,196 people named Òű in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Òű compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Òű is the 988th most common surname of 8,142 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%B2%C5%B1The 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, “Òű” — ranked 5753rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.