Ŭi
given name · Latin script
Ŭi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: œuf ; gonade, larve. Ŭi is also written 우이 in Korean (Hangul).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.8Kas Wooi
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 120Kfew recordsas 의
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 Ŭi 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 named Wooi, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ŭi in other scripts: Latin and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Wooi in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, ID Indonesia and 1 more and Ui in US United States, KR South Korea.
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)œuf ; gonade, larve
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ŭi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #507 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Wooi | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 387K | — | Wooi | 2 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Ui | 58 |
| US United States | — | 334as Uy | 1 in 996K | 4.3K | Ui | 59 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Wooi | 24 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Wooi | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 Ŭi mean, and where does it come from?
- œuf ; gonade, larve Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Which countries have the most people named Ŭi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Wooi in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, South Korea, United States and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ŭi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ŭi is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 5.1 million people — even though Malaysia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ŭi?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Ŭi, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
- How common is Ŭi compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Ŭi is the 507th most common given name of 388,685 given names 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/%C5%ADiThe 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, “Ŭi” — the 507th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.