Hậu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: queen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hậu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 138K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 159K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 138K (inferred from the name graph)
2,404 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hau 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)
queen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hậu 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 | 2,404 | 1 in 138K | 3.6K | Hau | 75 |
| SE Sweden | 64 | 1 in 159K | 64 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 38 | 1 in 455K | 300 | — | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 77 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 33 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
2,404 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Hậu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: hậu, dày/hậu đãi; trong bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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)
- Tang Houb. 1350not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 108660
- Ruan Houb. 1505not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 203379
- Mai Thiên Vânb. 1982VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
- He Hounot in their usual namepolitician
- Tian Hounot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 277847
- Xia Hounot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 285028
- Zheng Hounot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 258788
- Sun Hounot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 232130
- Chen Hounot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 280734
- Wu Hounot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 102280
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #35,329 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #35,558 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hậu mean, and where does it come from?
- queen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hậu a male or female name?
- Hậu 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.
- In which country does Hậu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Hậu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hau.
- Where is Hậu most common?
- Hậu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 138 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hậu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,404 people named Hậu in 2020, about 1 in 138 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%E1%BA%ADuThe 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, “Hậu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.