Фу
surname · Cyrillic script
Meaning: (expressing disgust) ugh!
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Фу is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 826K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 23Kas Fu
- SESweden1 in 37Kas Fu
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 Фу 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 826K (inferred from the name graph)
8,370 named Fu, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kazakhstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fu 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)
(expressing disgust) ugh!
Sources 1
- Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Фу 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 | 8,370as Fu | 1 in 40K | 12K | Fu | 22 |
| ES Spain | 1,201as Fu | 1 in 42K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 273as Fu | 1 in 37K | 273 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 241as Fu | 1 in 23K | 241 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 209as Fu | 1 in 1M | 209 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 146as Fu | 1 in 37K | 146 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 826K | 1 | Фу | 17 |
8,370 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Фу is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, pew!, ew!, yuck! (expresses disgust)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, Cyrillic spelling of fu.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bdk, bread
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dng, book
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In inh, seed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peng Zhenb. 1902CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (1902-1997)
- Fu Leib. 1908CNChinese writer (1908-1966)
- Ezra Vogelb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican academic, sinologist (1930–2020)
- Fu Congb. 1934GBChinese-British pianist (1934-2020)
- John Fughb. 1934USnot in their usual nameMajor general, advocate (1934–2010)
- Ping Fub. 1958USChinese computer scientist and entrepreneur
- Marco Fub. 1978CNprofessional snooker player from Hong Kong
- Theresa Fub. 1984CNHong Kong singer and actress (born 1984)
- Fu Haifengb. 1984CNChinese badminton player
- Fu Yuanhuib. 1996CNChinese swimmer
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Фу mean, and where does it come from?
- (expressing disgust) ugh! Recorded by Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order.
- In which country does Фу have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Fu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Фу?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,370 people named Fu in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Фу?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%84%D1%83The 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, “Фу”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.