Huj

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Huj is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: terme pour faire reculer le bétail.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 16Kas Huy(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 29Kas Huy
  • USUnited States1 in 34Kas Hui

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Huj 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)

9,857 named Hui, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland, as Huy

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HuiLatin(measured from records)
ХуйCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hui 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)

terme pour faire reculer le bétail

Sources 2

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Huj 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 Huj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,857as Hui1 in 34K8.8KHui13
ES Spain366as Hui1 in 137K366—1
SE Sweden348as Huy1 in 29K348——
NL Netherlands141as Huy1 in 123K141—1
BR Brazil94as Hui1 in 2.3M94——
FI Finland93as Huy1 in 60K428——
DK Denmark84as Hui1 in 70K82——
IS Iceland22as Huy1 in 16K22——

9,857 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Huj is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Hudz, Hudź

26 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Huj is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Northern Guiyang Hmong.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, vocal expression of surprise, fright, sudden pain

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, vice, flaw, bad habit

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, misspelling of chuj

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, terme pour faire reculer le bétail

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, riba ophidium barbatum

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 2

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 Huj mean, and where does it come from?
terme pour faire reculer le bétail Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003) and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
In which country does Huj have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Hui, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Huj most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Huj itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Iceland's: the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people named Huy.
How common is the name Huj?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,857 people named Hui in 2020, about 1 in 34 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, “Huj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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