Lòü
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lòü is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Louis, Louise.
- CNChina≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 8.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 486 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, 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 Lou in US United States, PH Philippines, CN China and 1 more and Lóū in DZ Algeria.
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)
Clipping of Louis, Louise.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lòü 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Lou | 70 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 935 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 53K | — | 11 |
| US United States | #497 | 16,909 | 1 in 20K | 11K | Lou | 486 |
| PH Philippines | #445 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Lou | 131 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Lóū | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,088 | 1 in 4.9K | 2.1K | — | 25 |
| IE Ireland | #246 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Lou | 42 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lòü mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Louis, Louise. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Lòü a male or female name?
- Lòü is a female 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 Lòü have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Lòü in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lou.
- How common is the name Lòü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,909 people named Lòü in 2020, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Lòü compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Lòü is the 246th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B2%C3%BCThe 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, “Lòü” — the 246th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.