Ĵū
surname · Latin script
Ĵū is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 117K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 130K
- USUnited States1 in 133K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
2,502 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ĵū 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 | 2,502 | 1 in 133K | 2.8K | — | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 148 | 1 in 117K | 148 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 90 | 1 in 556K | 90 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 60 | 1 in 638K | 35 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 43 | 1 in 130K | 43 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 24 | — | — |
2,502 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ĵū mean, and where does it come from?
- From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Ĵū have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Ĵū, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ĵū most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ĵū is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ĵū?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,502 people named Ĵū in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%B5%C5%ABThe 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, “Ĵū”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.