Čü

given name · Latin script

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

Čü is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 邱 (Khu), via Spanish Cu. Doublet of Coo and Khoo.

  • NONorway1 in 161K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 223K
  • DKDenmark1 in 838K

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 Čü itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)

1,593 named Cue, 2010

Record sources
194 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cu in US United States.

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)
Derivation of Čü: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Čü
  1. Hokkien邱Khu(measured from records)
  2. SpanishCu(measured from records)

From Hokkien 邱 (Khu), via Spanish Cu. Doublet of Coo and Khoo.

Cited for this meaning 4

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Čü 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 Čü is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,593as Cue1 in 209K1.6KCu194
ES Spain577as Cue1 in 87K577—16
BR Brazil991 in 2.1M99—2
AR Argentina72as Cue1 in 632K72——
NO Norway341 in 161K34—1
UY Uruguay33as Cue1 in 103K33——
FI Finland251 in 223K25—3

1,593 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling cue. 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; 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Čü 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 Čü mean, and where does it come from?
From Hokkien 邱 (Khu), via Spanish Cu. Doublet of Coo and Khoo. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Čü a male or female name?
Čü is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Čü have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Cue, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čü most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čü is densest in Norway — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čü?
In Brazil, the national register counted 99 people named Čü, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Čü”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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