Liẽu
given name · Latin script
Liẽu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,969 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).
- USUnited States1 in 169K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)
1,969 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Lieu 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)- Frenchlieu(measured from records)
- Latinlocum(measured from records)
Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Liẽu 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 | 1,969 | 1 in 169K | 3.8K | Lieu | 75 |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 19 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 10 | 1 in 557K | 39 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
1,969 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 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liẽu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Liẽu?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Liẽu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lieu. After it come Denmark, Finland, Poland and Iceland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Liẽu most common?
- Liẽu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 169 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Liẽu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,969 people named Liẽu in 2020, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li%E1%BA%BDuThe 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, “Liẽu” — ranked 7664th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.