Кю
given name · Cyrillic script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Кю is a male given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country. Кю is also written Kyu in Latin.
- RURussia≈1 in 9.7Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 1.1Kfew recordsas Kyu
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 28Kas 규
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 Кю itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named Kyu, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Кю in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kyu in US United States, KR South Korea, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and Гю in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Кю 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #171 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Kyu | 26 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 664K | — | Kyu | 21 |
| KR South Korea | #940 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Kyu | 186 |
| US United States | — | 1,495as Kyu | 1 in 223K | 1K | Kyu | 223 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Kyu | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Kyu | 42 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Kyu | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 75as Kyu | 1 in 136K | 75 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | — | Гю | 52 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kyū Sazankab. 1914JPJapanese actor
- Kyū Sakamotob. 1941JPJapanese singer and actor (1941–1985)
- Kyū AmakawaJPJapanese mangaka
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Кю a male or female name?
- Кю is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Кю?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Kyu in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come China, South Korea, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Кю?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,495 people named Kyu in 2020, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
- How common is Кю compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Кю is the 171st most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Кю?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BA%D1%8EThe 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, “Кю” — the 171st most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.