Hêu

given name · Latin script

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

Hêu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 418K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

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)

796 people, 2010

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 418K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Heu 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hêu 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 Hêu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7961 in 418K910Heu25
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—1
FR France——143—1
CL Chile——1——
EE Estonia——listed——

796 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)

Hêu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Thailand, Singapore

    Languages: Malay, English, Korean

    Also written Hooi, Heu, Hoi, ฮุย, Hoy

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Heu, Hệu

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Cameroon

    Also written Heu

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hêu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Hêu a male or female name?
Hêu 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.
In which country does Hêu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 796 people named Hêu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heu.
Where is Hêu most common?
Hêu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 418 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hêu?
In the United States, the national register counted 796 people named Hêu in 2010, about 1 in 418 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Hêu?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%AAu

The 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, “Hêu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Hêu parses inside a full name →