Ÿü

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ÿü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 54th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From English u, the English name of the letter U/u.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 7.9K
  • NONorway1 in 14K

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)

52,035 people, 2010

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yu in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma).

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 English u, the English name of the letter U/u.

Sources 5

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ÿü 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 Ÿü is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—52,0351 in 6.4K66KYu74
ES Spain—3,1061 in 16K3.1K—2
AR Argentina—1,3141 in 35K1.3K——
FI Finland—7011 in 7.9K701—1
SE Sweden—6871 in 15K687—2
NO Norway—4041 in 14K404—2
MM Myanmar (Burma)#54———Yu63

52,035 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ÿü is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Argentina, China

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yu, Yú, Yü, Yû, Ýü

  • English surname66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yu, Yue, Yuee, Yü, Yue-E

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Ÿü 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

What does the name Ÿü mean, and where does it come from?
From English u, the English name of the letter U/u. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
In which country does Ÿü have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Ÿü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yu.
Where is Ÿü most common?
Ÿü is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ÿü?
In the United States, the national register counted 52,035 people named Ÿü in 2010, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
How common is Ÿü compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Ÿü is the 54th most common surname of 12,945 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, “Ÿü” — the 54th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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