Оу

org · Cyrillic script

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

Оу is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 10M(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 47Kas Au
  • NLNetherlands1 in 86Kas Au

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 Оу 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.

United States (measured from records)

7,148 named Au, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10M (inferred from the name graph)

Russia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ОуCyrillic(measured from records)
OuLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Ou 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Оу 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 Оу is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7,148as Au1 in 47K7.5KOu18
ES Spain230as Ou1 in 217K230—1
BR Brazil226as Ou1 in 937K226——
NL Netherlands202as Au1 in 86K202——
AR Argentina110as Ou1 in 413K110——
SE Sweden64as Au1 in 159K64—1
DK Denmark50as Ou1 in 117K50——
FI Finland39as Ou1 in 143K39—1
RU Russia≈14 est.≈1 in 10M—Оу31

7,148 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling au. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Croatian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Ou, Öū, Où, Õu, Oü

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Оў

1 further group 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Stephen Au, b. 1963Ou Ning, b. 1969Tash Aw, b. 1971Au Wai Lun, b. 1971Jeanette Aw, b. 1979Ao Shen, b. 1986Stephanie Au, b. 1992Oho Ou, b. 1992Howey Ou, b. 2002Ou Yushan, b. 2004
  • Stephen Aub. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
  • Ou Ningb. 1969CNChinese artist
  • Tash Awb. 1971MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian writer (1971–)
  • Au Wai Lunb. 1971CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong footballer
  • Jeanette Awb. 1979SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean actress
  • Ao Shenb. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director
  • Stephanie Aub. 1992HKnot in their usual nameHong Kong swimmer
  • Oho Oub. 1992CNChinese actor and singer
  • Howey Oub. 2002CNChinese climate activist
  • Ou Yushanb. 2004CNChinese artistic gymnast

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Оу 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

In which country does Оу have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Au, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Оу?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,148 people named Au in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand 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, “Оу”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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