Cữu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese reading of 柩
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cữu is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.1Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cuu in VN Vietnam, US United States, CA Canada and 1 more.
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)Sino-Vietnamese reading of 柩
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cữu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #422 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Cuu | 55 |
| US United States | — | 190 | 1 in 1.8M | 124 | Cuu | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Cuu | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Cuu | 8 |
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. 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)- Jiu Yunheb. 1557not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 207596
- Jiu Fuxingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 232674
- Jiu Shunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 232675
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cữu mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 柩 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Cữu a male or female name?
- Cữu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Cữu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Cữu in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuu. After it come United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cữu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 190 people named Cữu in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Cữu compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Cữu is the 422nd most common given name of 73,918 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/c%E1%BB%AFuThe 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, “Cữu” — the 422nd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.