Huu
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Huu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 610(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 52K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63K
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
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 608 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hữu in ID Indonesia.
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 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Huu 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 | #50 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 608 | listed | Huu | 176 |
| US United States | — | 1,203 | 1 in 277K | 938 | Huu | 105 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Hữu | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Huu | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 3 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198 | 1 in 52K | 198 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 88 | 1 in 67K | 88 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 65 | 1 in 86K | 263 | — | 3 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)Huu 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.
In Swahili, [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#M-mi class|m class_((III))]]/[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#U class|u class_((XI))]] inflected form of hii
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aia, mass (as of black ants), clump (as of _tomaho_ shrubs), cluster (as of singers)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In apb, clump, stool, bunch, group (as of excrement, leaves, trees, bamboo)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
ISO 639-3 language code for Murui Huitoto.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aia, beginning, origin; mass, clump, cluster
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In apb, a littoral tree: Barringtonia speciosa
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Tran Van Huub. 1896VNPrime Ministers of the Republic of Vietnam (1896–1984)
- Lương Bích Hữub. 1984VNVietnamese singer
- Duy Khánhb. 1994VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actor, comedian, singer and television presenter (born 1995)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Huu a male or female name?
- Huu is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV) and Norway (SSB).
- Which countries have the most people named Huu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 thousand people named Huu in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huu. After it come United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Huu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,203 people named Huu in 2020, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Huu compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Huu is the 50th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Huu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huuThe 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, “Huu” — the 50th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.